Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ravishing quality; obstructed by (mostly) dull American figurative works by John Steuart Curry, Jack Levine and the like, bought with Hearn's money in the '20s and '30s, that ought to be a footnote to the American Wing; dense with fair-to-splendid examples of early American modernists (Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove and others) and later abstract expressionists, but far too light on German expressionism, Dada and constructivism. Lieberman and his associate curator, Lowery Sims, have done a brilliant job with what they have, installing the paintings and sculptures so as to evoke unexpected similarities, rhymes, comparisons...
Other sages of the investment community agree. One of Wall Street's hottest gurus, Georgia-based Robert Prechter, has used an arcane branch of analysis known as Elliott Wave Theory to predict that the Dow is on a march that will peak at 3600 by 1988. In December 1985, Yale Hirsch, editor of the newsletter Smart Money, forecast the date of the Dow's 2000 day within roughly a week. Now Hirsch predicts that the index may climb to 2300 within three months and reach 2700 later this year...
...many observers who have battled the B-1B for over a decade, current problems merely confirm long-held doubts. Says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "For most of the aircraft's useful life, it will not be able to penetrate (Soviet airspace) and will be a standoff carrier of cruise missiles and conventional bombs." The U.S., concludes Nunn, "could have built that kind of system much cheaper than we have built...
Every now and then a franchise attempts a punning name. A hockey team in Georgia was known as the Macon Whoopees, and the Los Angeles Rams cheerleaders were once called the Embraceable Ewes. The name Buffalo Bills is a pun of sorts. So was the name of the late American Basketball Association team, the St. Louis Spirits. (Get it? The Spirit of St. Louis?) Perhaps one day we will have the Norman (Okla.) Conquests or the Greenwich Village Idiots...
...week before his Harvard graduation, for instance, Kaku received a telegram heralding his draft assignment: Fort Benning in Atlanta, Georgia...