Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to catch some Red Sox Baseball, you'll have to do it in front of the television. They'll be in Detroit Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday trying to make up ground against the first-place Yankees...
...Detroit...
...United Artists. It stars Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) playing a warehouse worker who becomes one of the country's most powerful labor leaders. Dubuque has the ambience of an industrial town of the 1930s. Another production, The Betsy, about infighting in the auto industry, is, naturally, being shot in Detroit. Much footage for EMI Limited's The Deer Hunter, a blue-collar special starring Robert De Niro, was shot in a bowling alley in Struthers, Ohio, and a U.S. Steel plant in Cleveland. Bette Davis is starring in Harvest Home, a Universal Production for NBC being shot in Conneaut...
...Detroit engineers long shunned diesels for cars because of their comparatively sluggish performance, noise and weight. But the energy crisis that started with the Arab oil embargo of 1973 caused GM designers to take another look. The diesel gets anywhere from 15% to 25% more miles per gal. than a gasoline-powered engine. Besides that, diesel fuel, which is essentially highly refined fuel oil, can cost as much as 10? per gal. less at the pump than regular gasoline depending on the area of the country. And the diesel engine, which has no spark plugs or distributor points, requires less...
Last week a show of this late Matisse work opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Later it will travel to Detroit and St. Louis. Organized by four art historians-Jack Cowart, Jack D. Flam, Dominique Fourcade and John Hallmark Neff-it is a brilliant start to the art season. This is not the definitive exhibition of Matisse's cutouts; it includes 58 works, about a quarter of the known total. But if it does not exhaust Matisse's achievement as découpeur, it offers an unstinted sense of buoyancy. Matisse liked to talk...