Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditional mediums and styles. Jan van Eyck's Gabriel is a resplendent messenger in jeweled robe and peacock-colored wings. Salvador Dali's Sacrament of the Last Supper is dominated by a clean-shaven, translucent Jesus addressing his bowed Apostles under what appears to be a geodesic dome. Each illustration is accompanied by a descriptive text block. The Gospel narratives are condensed in clear, simple, documentary prose...
While American investors fumed, Canadian companies rushed in to buy the assets of U.S. firms in Canada, helped by generous financing from Canadian banks. In one of the biggest transactions, Canada's Dome Petroleum spent $3.2 billion acquiring Hudson's Bay Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of Connecticut-based Conoco Inc. In the nationalistic climate of 1980-81, Canadian companies spent more than $7.3 billion on the purchase of foreign-held assets, creating a massive drain on the economy. Severely compounding the problem, Canadians invested at least $19 billion in the U.S. during roughly the same period...
...concept began to backfire in mid-1981, when high interest rates in the U.S. and the international oil glut helped to cause the near collapse of Dome. The company, one of Canada's largest, had amassed debts of $7.4 billion, more than one-quarter of that due to the Hudson's Bay deal. Interest rates on the debt grew to a nightmarish 22%. Last month Dome was saved from bankruptcy by a government-backed emergency bailout handled through a consortium of four Canadian banks...
...peculiar vision of Paris in the '50s. One of the most memorable shots is of the contrast in the still landscape of Montmartre at night. In the pitch black lower part of the frame only the sharply etched neon nightclub sign. "Pigalle," stands out, while above the dome of the Sacre Coeur cathedral is silhouetted against the mist. The music reinforces the fundamental contrast inherent in the film. It is magically distant and redolent of both jazz and the French music hall. The only part of the film that unfortunately remains on the other side of the Atlantic...
...getting bigger. It would be futile to put a frame around The Coming Boom. The book is more like a sprawling by-the-numbers kit used to paint the dome of a new Renaissance chapel. There the enervated finger of post-industrial Adam is about to be plugged into the socket of divine science. One can even find a title for this vaulting masterpiece: CI. It stands for command, control, communications, computing/information and intelligence. Kahn is not too specific about command and control. His discussion of CI other components describes an information network that he believes should enable government...