Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first quarter of 1977, the increase would have been even greater had it not been for the stiff competition from charter airlines. Industry experts believe Pan Am's and TWA's experiments on the London route could show the scheduled carriers how to lure cost-conscious travelers without cutting into present economy-class revenues. After all, with more than a quarter of all Pan Am's seats between New York and London now being flown empty, every seat sold to a passenger who would not have gone at all without the cheap fare is money...
Today, at 62, Motherwell is an American master (one of the very few around), but that is a recent reputation. Through the '40s and '50s in New York, when he was the youngest of the original abstract expressionist group, his conscious Francophilia set him rather apart from his colleagues. It was often taken as a denial of American newness. as a manifesto of eclecticism. Other artists dissimulated their debts to French painting or let critics bury them. Not Motherwell. Thus he was much abused as a mock European, all taste and private income-a Dick Diver, not attuned...
...inhibition, the mother of taste. Significantly, he entitled an early "self-portrait" of 1947-48 Homely Protestant, a phrase he picked at random from a page of Joyce. Motherwell was not the only Wasp among the New Yorkers who created abstract expressionism, but he was certainly the most conscious of his puritan background. The son of a California banker, he perceived America as a land of constraint-the abode, so to speak, of the superego. Pictorial sensuousness was something one escaped toward-across the Atlantic, to an imagined Paris, home town of the Cartesian odalisque...
...main complaint against Rivlin is that she is too publicity-conscious and sometimes goes beyond her $52,500-a-year job as staff technician and seeks to influence policy. The CBO, with its staff of 208 economists and other specialists, was set up to analyze tax and spending options in all areas, from defense to welfare, and assess costs and probable impact on the economy. As a result, Congress can now set spending ceilings and sometimes even cut appropriations to stay under them. At the same time, the legislators can keep a close watch on individual spending programs. Before, Congress...
...moped's chief appeal is economy in an energy-and inflation-conscious age. With small engines (no more than 2 h.p., usually 1), most models get about 150 m.p.g. The French-made Solex gets more than 200 m.p.g; it is one of the few mopeds whose engine drives the front wheel. Prices range from $300 on up to $550 for models with cast-alloy wheels, special suspensions and cushy seats. Pedals are used to start the machines and assist them on hills...