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...glass is littered with wine bottles, candy wrappers and used condoms. And Michael Ashkin's model-like sculpture "No. 104" depicts a haunting aerial view of an industrial plant-human interference in the natural environment-overrun by oozing swampland. The unconscious emphasis of all these pieces is the horizontal line-a stark, straight, unerring gash that bisects the picture plane and emphasizes the binary of culture and nature...
Tough, quiet-spoken and by no means an unattractive figure, Keeler nevertheless gives the impression of a spirit deliberately blunted, an intellect deliberately narrowed in order to achieve his goal. He makes it across the finish line-a retirement banquet at which he receives diamond-and-emerald cuff links patterned after the Phillips trademark-only to pay, at last, the price for his unquestioning belief that what was good for the corporation was good for him and, indeed, for everybody else. Keeler is now under investigation for authorizing an illegal corporate donation to the Committee for the Re-Election...
...Semi-emancipated puritan that he is (he was reared a Methodist), he can, when a guest goes off-color, freeze his face into a blank that shows nothing but eyes and innocence. He is performer and critic, rapping out a whole percussion section of effects to suit a funny line-a wince that clacks like a rim shot, a wagging paradiddle indicating consternation, a flam of the head that says go, baby...
...proposed merger would create the free world's largest single line-a transportation goliath with 298 planes, 80,000 miles of routes touching six continents, and nearly $1 billion in annual revenues. Since TWA is Pan Am's only U.S. rival on European and Middle Eastern routes,* the merger would also, in effect, make Pan Am the U.S.'s chosen instrument on many of the world's most heavily traveled airlanes...
Moreover, the relaxation extends up the income line-a $7,000-a-year man was limited to a $12,600 house, is now eligible for a $16,500 house; a $9,000-a-year man was confined to a $14,400 house, can now buy a $21,600 house. Furthermore, a wife's income, which was usually not taken into account, is now likely to be counted if she has a steady...