Word: gross
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last 30 years of his life. But in some of Kokoschka's last paintings there is the real sense of an old man's rage and an old man's freedom -- the sort of deliberate clumsiness by a highly gifted draftsman, the sense of the ludicrous posture, the gross energy of the old satyr, that fires up our responses when we look at a good late Picasso. Nowhere does this come out better than in Theseus and Antiope, the huge canvas he began in 1958 and worked on intermittently for 16 years, leaving it unfinished at the time...
...would be quickly stripped of their livelihood. Tiny Lesotho, to take one example, would not only be flooded with 140,000 returning workers, equivalent to more than 75% of its wage-labor force, but would also be deprived of their salary remittances, which currently exceed the country's entire gross domestic product. Earlier this year South Africa showed how it could use its economic might against Lesotho, which had been harboring anti-Pretoria activists. South Africa put up an economic blockade, and within 19 days there was a military takeover...
...market for manufactured goods has dropped from 10.2% to 8.2%. The reasons for this decline, says Gattaz, include a "punitive" corporate tax and the substantial charges that companies must pay for their employees' social benefits. C.N.P.F. estimates that these corporate taxes and charges total about 17% of the French gross national product, in contrast to only...
Women's self-esteem all too frequently becomes inextricably bound to body size. "There's an equation: If I don't have a nice body, I'm not worth anything. This seems to be a pervasive attitude. Many charming, attractive young women come in thinking they're 'gross,'" says Dr. Margaret S. McKenna '70, a University Health Services psychiatrist who advises students on eating disorders...
Most parents understandably want their children to stand out in the crowd of youngsters who are flocking into schools these days. And for some mothers and fathers, money is no object. Lili Gross, 32, makes a monthly expedition to Fred Segal, a Los Angeles clothing shop, where she spends up to $300 on surfer shorts, Japanese print shirts and other exotic duds for her five-year-old son Brandon. Joel Stillman, 38, and his wife Renee, 38, of suburban Detroit spent $800 on smart-looking ski outfits and equipment for their son Jonathon, 11, and daughter Sara, 8. Karen Topalian...