Word: compacter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Chrysler's sales in November rose by 6.9% over the same period last year. But behind that figure stalks a lot of bad news. Chrysler is staking its survival on the success of its new compact K-cars, the Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant. Despite the company's constant references to its "record-breaking" introduction, however, the two models are not doing well. Only 16,000 K-cars were sold in November, as compared with the company's target of 40,833. Gone with the poor sales figures...
...Lower Middle Class to a Cambridge/Loeb Drama Center audience risks a failure of communication: the gulf between Brecht's selfish characters clawing away at each other on the stage and the dainty gourmet shops sitting outside on Brattle St. seems wide enough to swallow Seven Deadly Sins' compact message. The great virtue of Alvin Epstein's American Repertory Theatre production is its dextrous explication of Brecht's easily garbled multiple ironies. Epstein uses his performers, music, dance, mime and even neon signs to illuminate Brecht's critique of the half-life of the bourgeoisie; he gives it such sober clarity...
Last week, while earthlings nearly a billion miles away marveled as they monitored its progress, an all-seeing but unmanned spacecraft no larger than a compact car completed the final and most spectacular phase of an epochal journey. Beating Buck Rogers and the faithful Wilma, sci-fi heroes of the pre-Star Trek generation, by five centuries, Voyager 1 brushed past the ringed planet Saturn, second largest member of the sun's family, and provided the best images yet of that strange and wondrous world, a far-off realm in the solar system never before glimpsed with such glittering...
Voyager 1, weighing a scant 825 kg (1,820 Ibs.) and drawing its electricity from a compact nuclear power pack, is ideally equipped to answer such questions. One of two identical ships en route to Saturn (its twin will reach it next August), the spacecraft carries eleven instruments, including two television cameras. During Voyager's swing by Jupiter in March 1979, these keen eyes sent back stunning closeups of the planet's turbulent atmosphere, detailed views of its moons and even a spectacular shot of a volcanic eruption on the Jovian satellite...
...Stanley Elkin characters might say, why not? Even those who happen to own all the 18 volumes that Roth and Elkin have written over the past 20 years are likely to find these two collections of golden oldies a sound investment, a way of consolidating large past pleasures into compact present ones. New readers have a different and equally worthwhile treat in store: the happy discovery of two serious comic writers...