Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flight from Buenos Aires to a golf and cartoon holiday was the latest chapter in a singularly improbable career. Born Maria Estela Martinez in 1931, the sixth child of a middle-class family from the impoverished Argentine province of La Rioja, Isabel owes her tenuous hold on power to a chance encounter with Juan Perón in 1956. Then 25, she was a petite dancer touring Central America with a troupe called Joe and his Ballets. Perón, then 60, had just been overthrown by a military coup following nine years as President. After catching...
Going Zowee. So far, the horde of promotions has drawn a beneficent nod from the guardians of tradition. "I see no harm in these Bicentennial products," says Robert Williams, executive secretary of the New York chapter of the Sons of the Revolution. "There's nothing wrong with making a buck. Free enterprise is the thing that has made this country go zowee." Another reason some approve: makers of souvenirs that meet the modest standards of the Government's American Revolution Bicentennial Administration pay royalties for the use of ARBA's imprimatur, and those fees...
...reporter begins this book with the same dogged investigation that was so fruitful for the sentimental devotee of Leni. The facts are what he is after, he tells us, but he is confused. It all begins clearly enough; each chapter is so short as to contain just a few positive assertions of facts in the case, and it is established that Katharina Blum, at the beginning of these five days, slept with a man who was wanted for murder. Duly it is stated, too, that under police interrogation, Katherina shows herself to have been ignorant of her lover's legal...
Alternative remedies to the problem of inflation in an underemployed economy are brushed aside with a few strokes of the pen. Keynesian faith in fiscal (tax-and-spending) policy to end recessions and damp down inflations is questioned in a chapter titled "The New Economics at High Noon." Galbraith argues that the reluctance of governments to raise taxes or cut spending during booms proves "the fatal inelasticity of the Keynesian system." Monetary policy is dismissed as "a perverse and unpredictable lever" and Economist Milton Friedman's carefully documented thesis that rapid expansion of a nation's money supply...
...cannot decipher the inscriptions or savor the interplay between conceptual and visual meaning in Islamic calligraphy. One can visually enjoy the writing on an 8th century Koran page: the angular Kufic script done in a swordsman's strokes, decisive and muscular; the rich gold foliations round the white chapter heading; the placement of red dots, fit to make Mondriaan despair. Nevertheless, it is frustrating not to be able to read the page. (In a less exalted context, this becomes an advantage: neon signs never look more beautiful than in Arabic...