Word: sync
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...with pieces that reversed the cult of Big Size in American sculpture -- a bronze house 9 in. high, for example, or a lilliputian metal chair sitting on the floor. Seen in the huge white-wall and oak-floor gallery spaces of early SoHo, these looked totally out of sync with their surroundings. Yet the contrast between the object and the space around it was part of Shapiro's project. The smallness seemed to gather and focus the room, stretching the distance between your eye and the sculpture, while giving the dumb-looking thing an irksome, gnatlike insistence...
...sync with my class. I didn't have any tutors or support," says Leslie R. Crutchfield '90-91, who spent a year doing public service work in Philadelphia and Washington...
...simple last time around. When former President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, liberal and moderate interest groups rallied to block the confirmation, and the Senate promptly nixed his nomination--reasoning that Bork's interpretation of the Constitution was entirely out of sync with the mainstream of American legal thought...
Yeltsin's move was not unexpected, but it still caused a sensation. With his huge popular following, he could spark a wave of defections. More important, he appears to have established himself as the leader most in sync with the public appetite for rapid change. As head of the Russian republic, which covers 76% of the U.S.S.R.'s landmass and is home to 147 million of its 289 million people, he holds a strong power base where he is now free to try his own more radical brand of reform. Even if the party does not split formally, Gorbachev could...
...country, the Congress and the media are demanding a peace dividend. Papa Bush sternly refuses to give it to them. For that he is assailed as being out of sync, out of touch, overprudent, weird even...