Word: coms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superfluous, relating to no specific function. They are instruments for me to express something." What? The answer seems to be the way that the world appears to be controlled by chance. Says he: "I assume that our society has sensed this unpredictability. Look at the number of insurance com panies." In the future, he hopes to get his messages across more directly by making his audience an active part of his art. He plans to use more under-glass movies, to script mechanical happenings. "The idea is not to make man into a robot," he says, "but to make...
Brazilians have always reveled in their genius for getting themselves into impossible predicaments, complicating the predicaments beyond belief, and then scrambling out of them at the last possible second not only unscathed but refreshed. They are the masters of the fearless retreat, the intransigent com promise, the edged hedge and the artful fix. No belief is so rigid that it cannot be reversed, no enemy so hated that he cannot be embraced. Revolutions are accomplished by collect telegram, prosperity by printing more money, and politics is riding a bandwagon. Absolutely nothing in Brazil is absolute. As a Brazilian Congressman once...
DECISIONS Boston Stamp Dealer Henry Harris took one look at the $2 sheet of 50 com memorative Panama Canal Zone stamps and figured that he had made at least a $100,000 find. The Thatcher Ferry Bridge, which was what the commemoration was all about, had somehow failed to show up in the engraving. There were three other misprinted sheets that had not been sold, but embarrassed Zone officials decided to print more, Harris' saturate dreams of the market philatelic and ruin treasure. They were taking their cue from one time Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who had highhandedly...
...interest loans on such repossessable goods as TVs and automobiles, but are notably cool when it comes to real-estate and small-business loans that would help Harlem more. "The other institutions," says Hudgins, "are not carrying their share of the burden. They do not relate themselves to the com munity." Freedom National makes consumer loans in competition with the five big banks, but real-estate and small-business loans now constitute 50% of its loan portfolio. Another Hudgins complaint is that "the middle-class Negro, the doctor, dentist and lawyer, is not facing up to a fair share...
...remembrance. And he inscribes his nib's nuances as if they were the scientific jiggling track of his own electroencephalograph. "To throw a pot of paint at a canvas is not my language," he says. "Images are like sounds-complicated. We communicate in complicated sounds. I communicate in com plicated images...