Word: detroit
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This concern is echoed in "Detroit Queen" (1957) and the Sentinel series, both of which augment the sheer artistic power of Giacomettian sculpture with a deep concern for the role of form and color. Despite its poorly lit display area, the genius of the bronze Detroit Queen emanates from its patinate form. Composed of sheet metal, gears, and bowls, the rigid figure in the work stands precariously balanced on the flowing forms of its "throne...
...network lost eight important affiliates to Fox when Murdoch acquired the 12-station group owned by New World Communications--stations that Tisch had earlier passed up a chance to buy. To replace the stations, CBS has been forced to switch to weaker UHF outlets in major cities like Detroit, Atlanta and Milwaukee; ratings there have dropped precipitously...
...ironic and unjust that Bill Clinton stayed in a four-bedroom suite at the Waldorf-Astoria last month for the United Nations' 50th anniversary that cost America $6,000 per night, at the same time that babies in Detroit or Los Angeles were being born into poverty so great their parents do not have the means to feed them? Or is it simply the beauty of capitalism...
...Detroit News, which is owned by the Gannett Company, and the Detroit Free Press, which belongs to Knight-Ridder, continue to run separate news operations but have maintained joint business operations since 1989. Though their combined circulation has decreased by 24 percent (according to the companies) and they expect to lose over $100 million because of the strike, Gannett and Knight-Ridder won't give in to settlement even by arbitration. These are national newspaper chains; they are dedicated to serving up a profit-making product, much as McDonald's dishes out greased buns. People love it, but they...
...world economic order is based upon the corporation. The worker is at the hands of impersonal, transnational businesses. Union members who are fighting cutbacks instituted by these corporations are easily controlled or dismissed Journalists can safely be included among such workers after four years of trustless striking in Detroit. Now conservative opinion makers and politicians in their comfortable materialist world, can stop wondering about the derivation of media liberals...