Word: af
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work on view ranges from Symbolists like Paul Serusier to gifted postmodernists like Bruno Ceccobelli; from mannered Rosicrucians and a little- known visionary named Hilma af Klint to Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe and Jasper Johns. Nor does it leave out that durable old alchemist, Marcel Duchamp. It also features several vitrines of early mystical, cosmological and alchemical texts known to have been studied by modern artists, some of whose illustrations are of astonishing beauty and suggestiveness. But its main focus, inevitably, is on the inventors of abstract art: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Kupka, Kazimir Malevich -- all represented by remarkable works...
...market in January 1985, the hot-selling, auto-focusing 35-mm instrument seemed immune to the photographic-equipment industry's usual cutthroat discounting practices. One reason, some consumers claim, is that Minolta coerced its retailers to charge a minimum of $319.95 for the Maxxum and $189.95 for its AF-Tele. Last week John Troncelliti, a suburban Philadelphia barber, filed a national class- action suit against the Japanese manufacturer, charging that it ordered retailers to keep prices high or lose the right to sell Minolta's line...
...doctors said they hope to determine which patients suffering from a heart condition called atrial fibrillation (AF) should receive the drug. AF is a disorder of the heart's upper chambers, or atria, that doctors say causes 15 percent of all strokes in the United States...
Warfarin has been given to some subgroups of AF patients' over the past 30 years with varying degrees of success. There has been no well-designed study with absolute proof to convince doctors that the drug really works, Hughes said...
Although warfarin seems to reduce the incidence of stroke in AF patients, Hughes said the risks for users are not to be dismissed...