Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...image of the fair that lingers longest in the mind is half a mile of intricate shapes called the Wonderwall, which connects the two main gates. Though it was designed for a practical purpose, to divert the eye from overhead power lines, fantasy has overtaken function. The fair's master architects, Perez Associates, claim that the Wonderwall was inspired by Piranesi's etching of the Circus Maximus in Rome, but the multicolored Styrofoam and Fiberglas-mesh structure looks more as if it had been dreamed up in a Bourbon Street bar by the design team of Dali...
...including his wife and a daughter, a distant second to art. He preferred to live alone, in second-rate hotel rooms, mostly in Paris. "I am learning to see" became his description of the writing process. He composed poems of close, naturalistic observation, as if the poet's function were, in Leppmann's words, to act as a "recording instrument...
...truth, a search that must travel the broadest possible path. It follows that universities must therefore be places in which every idea good and bad, moral and immoral, may be expounded and understood, ebutted, or ignored. To choose a more narrow path frustrates the essence of the university's function...
...Board can function better without dealing with political situations," said Dean of the College John B. Fox '59, chairman of the Ad Board...
...according to Dean of the College John B. Fon Jr. '99. "RUS has an entirely different historical background from the social clubs." He added that the clubs were founded as places to eat and study before the College offered facilities for such activities, but "history has undone their original function," he said...