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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...script for Midnight Express in 1978 developed into a real dark-horse success. It got me an Oscar ((in 1979)), which stunned me. I was 32. All of a sudden I went from being nobody for ten years -- total reject -- to being wanted by everybody. I wasn't quite ready for it. I was very much an artist in my mind, and I didn't understand that the movie business is a collaboration between art and money. I wasn't a vet. The same thing that had happened to me in Viet Nam happened to me in Hollywood...
...interviewees was quoted as saying that the effect of the demonstrations has been socially disruptive--traffic breakdowns, workers showing up late and mothers failing to nurse their children as a result. But isn't causing traffic breakdowns and other related alterations of normal life exactly the appropriate way to express some deep psychological frustrations on the part of the students about the way the government controls and regulates their lives...
...reason for the increase in near midairs is that air traffic has soared under deregulation. Flying accounts for nearly 90% of all interstate travel; the annual number of airline passengers has jumped from 292 million in 1978 to 415 million last year. The number of airlines, including cargo, express mail and charter service, increased from 150 to about 400, and ! the roster of passenger carriers grew by 97 (to 157). The FAA offers another explanation for the rising number of near midairs: its reporting system has improved. In 1983 the FAA began installing what controllers and pilots call a "snitch...
...genesis and development of abstract art," argues the show's curator, Maurice Tuchman, in an enormous catalog comprising essays by him and 19 other contributors, ". . . reflects a desire to express spiritual, utopian or metaphysical ideals that cannot be expressed in traditional pictorial terms." One typical preoccupation was with the idea that the universe, instead of being the vast agglomeration of distinct things perceived by science or realism, was a single, living entity, pervaded by "cosmic" energies; these revealed themselves in "vibrations," the formative agents of all material shapes. Hence the desire to paint archetypal forms, so that Mondrian's rectangles...
...schools, Pretoria last week empowered educational authorities to forbid students to wear shirts bearing unacceptable slogans on school grounds. The new regulations also covered uniforms and any other "article of clothing, case, flag, banner, pennant or poster," making it difficult for youngsters to use other sartorial means to express their views...