Word: inventer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...languid Orient, industrial Japan adheres to a Germanic punctuality, while mainland China moves at a much brisker pace than it did before the Communist revolution. In Latin countries, even the siesta may one day yield to technological advance and a yearning for managerial efficiency. IBM, alas, has yet to invent a computer that grows drowsy after a heavy, wine-laden lunch-or unplugs itself for a 4 o'clock dalliance and an exchange of punch cards with a Univac down the hall...
...determination of every fact: an ambiguous dialectic threatens the conception of our own credibility as a fixed value. The filmmaker explains that his original project was a Mobil commercial (a few establishing shots ) but unquestioned appearances don't add much to understanding. So instead he decided to invent a 79-minute dramatic structure for analyzing images themselves...
...also not keen about make-work jobs. "You just can't get by these days with putting a graduate design engineer on the drawing boards and having him put threads on bolts for two years," says one recruiter for a major chemical firm. Other businessmen agree that industry must invent challenging, decision-making jobs for its bright young recruits. "And we must give young executives time off to become involved in the church, politics and social causes?and back them," says William D. Eberle, board chairman of American Standard. Because of the economic slump, it may be easier to hire...
...expression in question four separate times; each time, she clearly heard the word "nude," If Pasztor was saying "new," that cannot be helped; again, Day had no choice but to report what she heard. In any case, the phraseology is Pasztor's own. We did not invent...
Though orange crates make adequate cupboards and aluminum-can pull-tabs can be joined into long jangly curtains, there is a definite limit to the practical re-use of junk. Beyond that point, people invent "junque" art. At the Whole Earth Marketplace in Encino, Calif., eggbeaters plus scraps of waste metal become amusingly stylized model helicopters. New York Literary Agent Peter Matson unabashedly makes collages of stained rags, and paints multishaped polyurethane packing crates, which he duly frames and hangs. "It is a creative act," he says. "It also seems a way to make technology work for me rather than...