Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others, the only time the price is right, or at least affordable, is that fleeting moment between discovery and celebrity. The early part of the century, when a now famous Picasso etching could be had for $20, was one such time. The late '50s, when a Rauschenberg painting cost less than $1,000, was another. For photography that golden moment was, almost literally, just yesterday...
David S. Broder, the Washington Post's veteran political writer, won't be drawn into it until after Labor Day, convinced that "the process has got out of hand in length and cost." He thinks the press itself may have "aided and abetted" this overemphasis, because "it's easier to cover politics than to write about government." Theodore H. White, who first trooped around New Hampshire with Estes Kefauver back in 1956, vows to make 1980 his last book-length inquiry into President making. "Why, New Hampshire's only 26,000 votes!" Teddy White says...
Some signs of rebellion over climbing movie-ticket prices are also appearing. When some of Atlanta's first-run theaters raised the cost of admission from $3.50 to $3.75 this summer (it has risen in New York City to as high as $5 for some movies), smaller houses in more remote shopping centers began drawing sizable crowds by cutting prices to as low as 99? for recent but hardly fresh offerings like Rocky...
...brown-bagging their midday meal or seeking out a growing number of health-oriented restaurants that ignore or play down booze and beef. The price of a single martini has risen in some Manhattan restaurants to more than $3, an extortionate sum that is only slightly below the wholesale cost to an establishment of an entire fifth of vodka or gin. Clothes purchases are being postponed. The Claude Herrons of Atlanta took their annual two-week vacation at the seashore this summer, but Mrs. Herron has been staying clear of the stores. Says she: "I refuse...
...research director at the Sutro & Co. brokerage firm in San Francisco: "Yacht sales will remain strong but sailboats will be down," a sign that while millionaire boatowners remain secure weekend sailors are financially vulnerable. Then again, as always in recessionary times, women are continuing to buy cosmetics regardless of cost. At the fancy Georgette Klinger skin care salons in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills and Bal Harbour, Fla., sales of treatments and assorted preparations have continued to rise at 20% per year. But this year, reports Owner Klinger, people are economizing by "buying larger quantities-two and three quarts...