Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mirth: Kennecott paid the astonishing price of more than $560 million, or $66 a share-twice Carborundum's book value. Many of Kennecott's nearly 72,000 stockholders were sclerotic over the deal. Some had hoped that the company would eventually distribute to them in the form of a special dividend the $1.2 billion in cash and securities that it got from the sale of Peabody Coal last June; others had hoped that the cash-rich but troubled copper company, which lost $22 million in the last quarter, would itself become the target of a takeover attempt involving...
...time. Admittedly, his silent paintings, populated by cats and malignant-looking, narcissistic girls, offer their distant homages to surrealism. Balthus' work is, to put it mildly, post-Freudian. But the innovations of the past 40 years' art-the movements, polemics and epileptic spasms that form the twilight of the avant-garde-have not touched it at all. Against all odds, Balthus paints as though the tradition that runs from Donatello to Courbet had never broken. For that reason alone, any Balthus show compels interest; and the group of 24 paintings and drawings, ranging from 1934 to 1977, that...
...molting their husks. The most extreme case is Balthus' Guitar Lesson, 1934-one of the few masterpieces among erotic paintings made by Western artists in the past 50 years. But the suggestive mood pervades all his work except the landscapes. To encounter it in the mellowed and reduced form of Katia Reading, 1970-76, is still faintly disturbing-as if one of the figures in Seurat's Grande Jatte had turned from its Euclidean stillness and made a gesture of invitation. In terms of formal arrangement, it would be hard to imagine a more organized image than this...
...professor of management at Michigan State University: "People are rejecting the values of a mobile lifestyle. It was once considered stupid not to move when a company suggested it. Now the immobiles are coming out of the woodwork and saying no." There are already enough of these naysayers to form what Brandeis Psychologist Grace Baruch characterizes as "a critical mass that makes it O.K. to say, 'Maybe the job doesn't come first...
...craft constructed from 30 metric tons (33 tons) of reeds gathered from the swamps of southern Iraq; its design is based on drawings found on ancient Sumerian clay tablets. Iraqi workmen first tied the reeds together into two long, tapering rolls. Then the rolls were joined to form the craft's hull. Though on earlier voyages Heyerdahl and his crew drifted across oceans at the whim of winds and currents, the Tigris will be more versatile. It has been fitted with a large squarish sail and twelve wooden oars, each of them 6 meters (20 ft.) long...