Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dennis Overstreet, the owner of a wine store in Beverly Hills, bought 500 cases of the old stuff when he heard of the change. Two weekends ago, Overstreet sold the last of his stock, at $1.25 a 6 1/2-oz. bottle, or $30 a case. "They lined up around the block," he said. "It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life." One customer: Rock Singer Al Stewart (Time Passages), who called from London and put five cases on his American Express card...
...vivid reflections on late cubism, especially the utopian "cubifying" abstraction of the 1920s, as practiced by such artists as Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky and Prampolini. They have the visionary character of ideal forms -- ovals, cones, circles, cubes -- moving in deep space, its depth contradicted by puzzling abutment and reflections that block the view, break the recession and direct the eye back to the richly painted surface. Another highly gifted artist in the area where abstraction hovers on the edge of figuration is Chicago-born Elizabeth Murray, 44. Since Frank Stella, American painting has been littered with shaped canvases, but Murray...
...tycoon himself has had little to say of late. Turner announced that he would respond to CBS's petitions by next week and is "confident that the FCC will find no reason to block our offer." But Wall Street remains dubious about Turner's chances. Though he has offered CBS stockholders securities that he values at 175 a share, analysts estimate their worth at around 130. CBS stock now trades far below that level. It closed last week...
Arthur and his wife Rita, 50, were well liked by neighbors in the prosperous five-family cul-de-sac. Alone in their brick four-bedroom home after their three grown children moved away, the couple was involved in local civic work. Arthur had helped form the block's anti-crime program, and served as president of both a local civic league and a swim club. Recalled one neighbor: "They were an all-American family...
...potential stumbling block lies in the concept of Palestinian "self- determination," a term generally understood to mean the establishment of an independent Palestinian entity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel adamantly opposes such a move. Jordan's Foreign Minister Taher al Masri argued in Washington last week, however, that the Jordanian-Palestinian "confederation" that Hussein and Arafat have in mind "means that there will be no independent Palestinian state...