Word: gran
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...This" was traditional socialism. Shortly after returning to office in January, Perez let most interest rates float and ended almost all price controls. He has now begun privatizing some state-owned industries. He calls the program el Gran Viraje -- the Big Shift -- or sometimes, with a smile, Pereztroika...
...which began in 1895, is the oldest living, official new-art event. Through the '50s, it acquired an inimitable prestige, and its prizes were held to be enormously important in the marketing of an artist: nothing could have given Robert Rauschenberg's career a faster boost than winning the Gran Premio in 1964. This changed in the wake of '68, when art-student radicals occupied the Accademia di Belli Arti, in protest against the commodification of culture (how many of them, one wonders, are art dealers today?). In panic, the Biennale decided in 1972 to jettison the prize system...
...such unlikely choice as "banana" and "iguana." When the aim is scabrous, Hitchcock creates "Trash," a scathing put-down of the star-fucking mentality in rock and roll and an explicit tribute to Lou Reed's "Dirt." But at his most playful, he comes up with "Point It At Gran," a suggestion to a gun-toting assailant...
While rolling out its new models, AMC has found a lucrative way to use its excess production capacity by striking an unusual deal with Chrysler. AMC's underutilized plant in Kenosha, Wis., will soon assemble Chrysler Fifth Avenues, Dodge Diplomats and Plymouth Gran Furies alongside the Alliance. The Chrysler work could earn as much as $40 million in added revenues for AMC this year...
Ailing American Motors is looking to cut a deal with a competitor. AMC said last week that the company was negotiating to build Chrysler's full-size Fifth Avenue, plus its Dodge Diplomat and Plymouth Gran Fury models. The proposed pact could help Chrysler as well as enable...