Word: free
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will produce a huge number of identical small shoes -- identical, because it's easier; small, because they can get more shoes out of a given supply of leather. The only way to produce exactly the shoes people want, or close to it, is to place the order through the free market...
What's so good about the free market is that when subject to reasonable government scrutiny to ensure fair play, it tends to harness people's selfishness for the common good, so that in pursuing their own greedy little ends they also tend to work toward satisfying the needs of others. Why? Because the more you satisfy other people's wishes, the more richly you are rewarded. Good waiters get better tips. None of this is new, but it seems finally to have been accepted in large measure throughout the world. Twenty- six years ago, selling your jeans could land...
...real world as raw material. Charred, rough-edged and yellowed, Shinro Ohtake's mixed-media assemblages and collage- filled scrapbooks seek an awkward beauty in combinations of found objects and unwanted rubbish. Such pieces as his Family Tree, 1986-88, serve as vivid symbols of the appropriationist free-for-all that is Japanese pop culture today -- a tsunami of Mickey Mouse trinkets, teriyaki burgers, Picasso calendars, Swatches and more. They are also dispassionate records of life in what Ohtake calls an "information supermarket," an environment in which traditional Japanese cultural values are up for grabs, along with everything else...
Tolerance opposes censorship to make for freedom of expression. Censure, the free expression of disapproval, mobilizes social opprobrium...
...words proved prophetic. The next day government soldiers placed Suu Kyi under house arrest, effectively cutting her off from all contact with the outside world. For most political observers in Rangoon, Suu Kyi's detention demonstrated that the junta never intended to honor its promise of holding a free and fair election next...