Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tantalizingly visible on the horizon, a weak and exceedingly vulnerable economic recovery will at last begin to take shape for the struggling nations of Western Europe during the second half of 1983. That was the cautious view of TIME'S European Board of Economists, which met in Geneva last week to survey the West's hesitant forces for recovery-most notably the falling interest rates around the world-and to weigh them against the twin recessionary demons of global debt and rising protectionism that are threatening the economies of nations everywhere...
...such simple materials and a plot line that stretches toward the horizon as direct and uncomplicated as an old county trunk blacktop, Clint Eastwood has fashioned a marvelously unfashionable movie, as quietly insinuating as one of Red's honky-tonk melodies. It is a guileless tribute not only to plain values of plain people in Depression America, but also to the sweet spirit of country-and-western music before it got all duded up for the urban cowboys. As both actor and director, Eastwood has never been more laconic than he is in this film. If it reminds...
...would be hard to think of one whose erudition was more exactly placed at the disposal of feeling. His paintings look abstract but are full of echoes of figures, rooms, sociable encounters; they are small, "unheroic" but exquisitely phrased. The space they evoke is closed, artificial, without horizon or other legible references to landscape. One seems to be looking into a box full of colored flats and wings-a marionette stage, behind whose proscenium the blobs and cylinders of color glow with shivering, theatrical ebullience. "Curious," as the English art historian Lawrence Gowing remarked in a recent essay on Hodgkin...
Lyndon Johnson fervently believed that Big Government should be used for almost any big problem that came across the American horizon. He was unmatched as a manipulator and legislator. Fired by his own successes, he simply rejected the idea that there might be limits to himself or the nation. He spent too much for war and the Great Society. His appetite for action was finally his undoing...
Sophisticated marketing techniques were far over the horizon when Aaron Montgomery Ward pasted up his first catalogue in Chicago. He knew exactly where his market was: only about 27% of Americans lived in cities a century ago. And despite our nostalgia for the country general store, the 19th century retailer charged excessive prices and carried a narrow selection of goods...