Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many painters have gone so far into self-exploration that painting has very little relevancy today. Unless we concern ourselves with more important issues, painters will become anachronisms, and great art will be found only in historical archives, currently known as art museums...
Middleburg Heights, Ohio, will get a $213,725 aerial ladder for its fire department. Independence, Mo., will not get a board to review the actions of its police department, and the citizens of Miami have gone on record as approving the sale of beer in the Orange Bowl. Small beer, perhaps, to everyone except imbibers in Miami, but some more momentous decisions were also made last week. The citizens of Pittsburgh voted 2 to 1 to relax pollution-control laws, hoping to open up new jobs in the beleaguered steel industry. And more than 3 million voters-a record number...
...nation's energy binge has gone on without significant letup. Token fuel-saving gestures have been widespread, and it may be that most Americans have actually turned back the thermostat a notch now and then or switched off a needless light. Still, through last summer America had managed to use and import more fuel by far than ever before...
...trend could hardly have surprised anyone attentive to the more visible facts of 1977. City dwellers are still accustomed to seeing office buildings lit up long after the workers have gone home. Luxury-loving Americans are constantly raising their purchases and use of electrical appliances. Indeed, demands for electricity have recently strained utilities sufficiently to achieve major blackouts here and there. New structures with solar-energy devices have remained almost as exotic as ever. Nobody seems to be considering an encore of the dimmed-out Christmas that marked the ancient time of the oil embargo. This Christmas may well burn...
...told a hockey fan of yesteryear that in 1978 there would occur a Women's Beanpot Tourney in ice hockey, he might have gone for the men in the white suits to come and take you away...