Word: ge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GE's engine victory...
General Electric. For at least the first year, said the Pentagon, General Electric would fly off with 75% of the contract, while Pratt & Whitney would have to settle for the remaining 25%. During that initial year, GE will build 120 engines, and Pratt & Whitney will construct 40. The Pentagon said it was particularly impressed with GE's warranty and its plan to let other firms bid to supply spare parts. Air Force Secretary Verne Orr called the warranty issue a key element of the competition. On Wall Street, investors correctly anticipated the Air Force action. General Electric stock closed...
Simenon was an eager refugee from his drab upbringing as the son of an insurance clerk in Liège, Belgium. He took on Paris in the 1920s with a sharp eye for a quick score, promoting himself as a pulp prodigy and becoming one of Josephine Baker's lovers. His invention of Maigret in 1930 soon brought him vast wealth, international celebrity and the freedom to pursue a more complete, often cruel self-absorption. To those close to him he was imperious and burdensome. His relentless couplings, conjugal and otherwise, were by his own account often starkly physical...
...Maigret, with his equanimity, his intuitive sympathy for others, his fidelity to one woman, is the man that Simenon never could be. Less plausibly, Bresler attributes Simenon's "stunted sexuality" to his rejection by, and rebellion against, the formidably dour widowed mother he left behind in Liège. (When Simenon was 62, she defiantly returned all the money he had sent her for 40 years.) This purports to explain both too much and too little. As for how Simenon was able to write as he did, what demons drove him, why he held to such a reductive view...
...imagery of the visitors' PX: the white gleam of refrigerators and stove enamel, the iconography of GE and Hoover, so utterly different from the traditional dimness of the Japanese house and the mandatory drabness of wartime, with its austerity colors and nocturnal blackout. On a popular level, the war had caused an immense disenchantment with traditional Japanese architecture, wood and paper: "weak" materials, which burned. Concrete and steel were the substances of a victor culture, and the huge termitary cities of Japan were rebuilt with them...