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...figure compositions. John's favorite subjects remained the two main women in his life, Ida the wife and Dorelia the patient mistress, posing among their hordes of children in long columnar skirts and peasant shawls beside Romany caravans. But the 20th century was for John merely the unfortunate bracket of time in which he happened to live. He shared neither its energies nor its Angst. He saw modernity as a threat, an encroachment of "terrible simplifiers" on the sturdy, randy freedom of the gypsy artist. "I feel myself personally outraged and assailed by a horrible and inhuman monster...
...Feel. Chrysler's big effort this year is the introduction of two new lines of middle-sized "small luxury cars," the Plymouth Volare and the Dodge Aspen. They are part of an ambitious effort by the company to attract more of the kind of higher-income-bracket, relatively recession-resistant customers who have been buying the successful new $5,000 Chrysler Cordoba. The Volare and Aspen lines will include sport coupe, sedan and station-wagon models, each featuring all-independent suspension to give big-car driving feel...
...many Britons, the nation's high public spending has meant a steady decrease in private income. Most British workers are in a 33% income tax bracket. The top tax rate for singles is 83% on the portion of taxable income over $38,000. This compares with a 70% maximum rate on taxable income over $100,000 in the U.S. Even in socialist Sweden, the highest tax rate is 69%. And when they venture abroad, Britons find that their money buys increasingly less; last week the pound was worth $2.10, v. $2.35 only last...
...rate of fatal heart attacks: ages 30-39, only 1.9 per 100,000 nonusers against 5.4 per 100,000 among users; in the 40-44 group, 11.7 for nonusers and 54.7 for users. The best available figures indicate that 18% of Pill users are in the 30-39 age bracket, and only 6% are over...
...company's total profit; however, he would then get a credit representing his share of the tax that the company had already paid. The net effect of this dazzlingly complex change would be to wipe out all taxes on dividends for a stockholder whose personal income tax bracket is 50% or less. The resulting savings, Simon argues, would be a powerful incentive for individuals in all brackets to spend less and invest more of their incomes, thus supplying the economy with badly needed new capital...