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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, both Davids seem equally eager to avoid confusion. David E.'s white-on-blue bumper stickers show the middle initial in bright red, while the other David's yellow--on--green logo emphasizes a gigantic 'J'. The 'J' stands for Jude, and a disc jockey friend of the candidate's has been playing "Hey Jude" on a local radio station...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: The Sullivans' Very Different Principles | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...academic up to now," he says, noting that the value of his only other major asset, his share of the M.I.T. pension fund, was reduced in last week's debacle. But some good may yet come of the Crash of '87, he says, if it lessens the flow of bright graduate students to investment banks. "It may make engineers out of some yuppies," he smiles. "Sweet are the uses of adversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economics: Robert Solow: Theories of Gain | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Three million shares were sold in the first half-hour, and often there were no takers at any price. One block of White Sewing Machine Co., which had been 48 a share a few months before and 11 the previous night, reportedly went for 1 because a bright messenger boy made that offer and there were no others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Once Upon A Time in October . . . | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...late '70s his reliefs had stretched the conventions of relief without really departing from them: they had a flat solid background plane from which the bright templates sprouted as figures on a ground, and however "wild" the color seemed, it was always anchored within the coordinates of collage or, at least, given the enormous size of pieces like Inaccessible Island rail, 1976, of screw-bolt-and-bracketage. Stella's 3-D paintings all descend from constructivism, and one soon realizes that they mark the end of its tradition with a barrage of fireworks: there is something funereal as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Grand Maximalist | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...over the next 54 days researchers, filmmakers and financial backers made 32 dives in the submersible Nautile. The salvagers used two remote manipulator arms to pluck objects from the ocean floor and place them in a collecting basket. There were, notes Keranflech, "strange anomalies -- a silver plate still as bright as if it had just been polished. Crystal glasses, beautiful porcelain plates and cups. When we brought them to the surface, ; everyone rushed up to see. We wanted to expose them to the air as little as possible, but it would have been criminal not to let the crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasures Reclaimed from the Deep | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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