Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent years, it seemed as if artists had broached all possible frontiers. They extended the plane surface of the canvas, took sculpture off its pedestal, used machines, made everything bigger and bigger. However large or awkward the object, museums and galleries managed to accommodate...
...those who are still fearful of losing their piece in an awkward moment, there is a more extreme solution. For between $650 and $1,350, "Hair-Anew" surgically attaches the piece to the scalp with half a dozen individual loops or sutures of Teflon-coated wire. "Medi-Hair" weaves the sutures in and out in a basting pattern; its $1,000 job is supposedly permanent. In one ad, a "Medi-Hair" wearer is shown hanging upside down with a 12-lb. weight attached...
Baffled, he turned for help to a computer. After analyzing many more unridable designs, he finally felt ready to build URB IV, an awkward-looking machine whose front wheel was four inches ahead of the normal position. The result was smashingly successful. Even when it was given a hard shove forward, the riderless URB IV quickly toppled. "It seems a lot of tortuous effort to produce in the end a machine of absolutely no utility whatsoever," Jones concluded, "but that sets me firmly in the mainstream of modern technology...
...House and business or labor leaders, no interference at all with the free market. Instead, Government would simply balance its budget and pump less money into the banking system. As funds became scarcer in the private economy, business would simmer down and so, too, would prices. For a few "awkward months," predicted Nixon's economists, the nation would suffer mild "slowing pains" of high interest rates, little growth in production, some drop in profits and a moderate rise in unemployment. Eventually, inflationary pressure would be wrung out of the economy and normal expansion of output and hiring could resume...
...need for a slowdown was evident. But now, to an ever-growing number of businessmen, workers, consumers?and voters?the game plan sounds like an exercise in fantasy. The awkward months have lengthened into painful seasons, and the alleviation of inflation that was supposed to be worth all the unpleasantness seems nowhere in sight. In his 16 months in office, Nixon has posted an unenviable economic box score...