Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Preliminary findings by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission indicate that inexplicable human errors helped cause the breakdown at the reactor: valves carelessly closed, safety systems turned off. Said Morris Udall, chairman of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee: "It completely baffles me as to how this could have happened."
The effects of the strike and lockout quickly dented the operations of a wide variety of manufacturing industries. Worst off were the automakers, who stock only a few days' supply of some components. General Motors was forced to cut production and lay off 30,100 hourly workers indefinitely. Ford...
One of the areas in which this happened was sculpture. It was perhaps the last time that a sculptor could imagine, in good faith, that he was history's megaphone. The social power of art was still unquestioned, and to change the language of sculpture was, at least potentially...
This conquest of the "planar dimension" has not, up till now, been properly explained by a museum show. Rowell has done the job with tonic intelligence, bringing together 114 sculptures done between 1912 and 1932 by 39 artists: French, Spanish, German, Hungarian, Russian, Italian and American. She has traced sculpture...
The night closed with heavyweight Chris McDonald of Fall River. Mass., the three-time New England Amateur Champ, out-pointing Steve Floch, also from Mt. Loretto, N.Y.