Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Northern attitude is myopically stingy. Almost every industrial nation is caught in an economic bind. Unemployment is unacceptably high, yet efforts to bring it down by stimulating the domestic economy through tax cuts and heavier government spending might pump up already high inflation. Selling more goods to other industrial nations is no answer, either. It leads to furious charges that the exporting country is destroying jobs in the importing nation; witness the anger in the U.S. and Europe against Japan's export prowess...
...Performing Arts, the past 30 years of Washington architecture have been a prolonged failure of the bureaucratic imagination. There have been one or two notable exceptions, such as the 1976 National Air and Space Museum by Gyo Obata. But perhaps one more structure was needed to break this bind, to show that a modern building could embody the ceremonial gravity of "official" architecture while refusing to compromise its own inventiveness. On June 1 that structure opens to the public. It is, of course, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., designed by Architect...
...character has dared to break the rules governing his life. He pays no more attention to the obligations which bind him to the past or to the future, but experiences the pleasure of the moment for its own sake. Though Gilbert's solution may be nothing but a temporary escape from reality, the ecstatic plunge into an imaginary world is brave because it threatens to destroy his meticulously pieced-together life...
...workers who help print and bind these voluminous publications have just ratified--by a very close vote--a new contract...
Ties That Bind...