Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the saber-toothed chieftains of American capitalism wanted models of political or cultural patronage, it was to Lorenzo de' Medici, prototype of city bosses, that they turned. Siena seemed less Promethean, less inventive. Its great moment in painting, by common consent, had come in the late 13th and 14th centuries, with the work of Duccio, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers. Then social and economic catastrophe struck in 1348, when the Black Death wiped out more than half its population. While it is true that Sienese painting and sculpture for the next 150 years did not have the extraordinary...
...substantive dialogue with P.L.O. representatives." With that, the Reagan Administration opened a door securely locked in 1975 when Henry Kissinger promised Israel that the U.S. would not deal with the P.L.O. unless the organization met Washington's preconditions. In the end, the words Arafat finally uttered were less significant than the intent Washington glimpsed of a P.L.O. apparently ready to swap its strategy of intransigence for the bargaining table...
...Party Knesset member. The pervasive Israeli distrust of Arafat has yet to be replaced by even the hint of a grass-roots movement to change Israel's policy toward the P.L.O. Certainly no major politician was ready to consider any change in attitude. Few in Israel expressed relief, much less victory, over Arafat's much belated acknowledgment that Israel had a right to exist...
...everything about this glum and self-important adaptation of Anne Tyler's upper-cute novel is dim. Director Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill) knows how to get Edward on and off screen effectively, but he is far less witty and adroit with his nominal stars. Dim too is the judgment of the New York Film Critics Circle, which last week named Tourist best English- language picture of the year...
Since NUMMI was established, every one of its 2,500 employees has had hundreds of hours of training. Nearly 500 of them were sent to Toyota City in Japan. They are not learning how to make cars. They are being taught how to work together more efficiently. More kaizens, less muda. "NUMMI is different," says assembly-line inspector Martha Gendel, "because the worker is being treated differently...