Word: chain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carpenter Center has the equipment most animators and fledgling studios improvise or do without, like the Oxberry. The Oxberry is an electric dream machine: it lights your drawings from below or polarizes the light from the sides; it fades or dissolves on command. It has sets of pegs on chain-treads, like tanks: hang your hole-punched transparencies or paper on the pegs and it will roll them steadily in any direction, your background stage left and your Mickey Mouse stage right. Ordinarily, each consecutive drawing is recorded on two frames of film; with a few dissolves, which require backtracking...
...most controversial guest was Richard Nixon, whom Teng had asked to see because his 1972 trip to Peking began the chain of events that led to normalization of relations. It was Nixon's first visit to the White House since his resignation in 1974, and there were some awkward moments. Speaker O'Neill's wife refused to sit at the same table with him. The former President stayed in a corner of the East Room during cocktails, talking with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "I said that I was glad to see him again," said Kissinger...
After Custin left in 1970 to form her own consulting firm, the store floundered. Over the next eight years Bonwit's owner, Genesco, the Nashville shoe manufacturer, brought in five different managers who came and went. After earning a $5 million profit in 1970, the Bonwit chain ran up a series of losses-$4 million last year on revenues of more than $110 million. The revolving-door management made store executives fearful of innovation, and Bonwit's identity as a fashion authority gradually faded. Says a security analyst: "The times changed, and Bonwit's didn...
Last week Genesco Chairman John Hanigan, 67, announced the sale of Bonwit's twelve-story Manhattan building and real estate leases to Developer Donald Trump for $10 million. Allied Stores, a large retail chain, is negotiating to buy Bonwit's twelve branches across the country, which it would operate under the Bonwit Teller name. But at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, where Bonwit's was rouged cheek by powdered jowl with Tiffany and Bergdorf Goodman, there will probably be some sort of highrise...
...ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure." On belief: "Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are really sudden explosions of faith. Dead religions do not produce them." And, "Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect." Love receives a whole chapter. "When the coin is tossed, either Love or Lust will fall uppermost. But if the metal is right, under the one will always lie the other." The attachment of marriage is "a stream that, after a certain length of time, sinks...