Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THESE THREE DEVELOPMENTS may not initially have much in common, but they are emblematic of an ongoing conservative abdication of moral responsibility in the international arena...
...stores in Los Angeles: "Once you open your product to mass merchandisers, then you're not selling computers. You're selling toasters." Commodore is also having trouble finding a market niche for the Amiga. Business customers are unenthusiastic because it is not compatible with the IBM machines that are common in offices. Shoppers looking for a home computer are discouraged by the Amiga's price: $1,795 with a color monitor...
...resulting images are like windows into a distinctly shaped but largely unrecognizable world. They have more than a little in common with surrealism; one thinks of the Pandora's box of little involuntary creatures, buzzing and defecating and copulating, that Joan Miro opened in the 1920s. And like those dreambugs, Winters' fungi and spores have a distinctly human air. In their aggregation, they refer to social structures: hives, crowds, nests, colonies. They suggest hierarchies and sometimes conflict. But all this is decidedly muffled, submerged so far in the paint that it hardly works as allegory. Winters does not want...
...most common reaction among friends is 'That's just the coolest thing. You're fun to watch,"' says Kelly. "Some have said, 'Omigod, Sue, you cannot be a go-go dancer,' and one said 'Your social standing will crumble...
Some students who feel they are particularly lucky are able to combine money-making with worthwhile activity. The two most common examples of this approach are Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. (HSA), a student-run business that pays wages, and Phillips Brooks House, which offers work-study pay to some students doing good in the surrounding community...