Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...works were by modernist painters-Picasso, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Enrico Donati and Joán Miró. The other half were by schizophrenic patients in mental hospitals. Asked to decide which were the outpourings of patients and which the works of artists, the panel scored a perfect zero. They were right half the time, wrong the other half-or no better than they might have been if they had closed their eyes and left it strictly to the laws of chance...
...stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow-hero to zero, I sometimes...
...save others. "A stained-glass window didn't seem like the right thing for our mother. So I asked May how she would like to establish a clinic. She asked how much it would cost. I said about $15,000. She says now I should have put another zero on that. It was nearer $150,000 before we'd finished...
Said Designer Marcel Rochas before the spring fashion openings in Paris: "I feel at zero hour, ready for a fresh departure." That was what Paris needed if it was to regain its place as fashion leader of the world. This week, glimpsing the first pictures of the spring fashions, U.S. women could decide for themselves just how fresh a departure Paris had made...
There's no relief for those wind-burns you've been nursing on your way to classes. The Weather Bureau sees only zero weather and biting winds for the weekend...