Word: linings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Maynard Keynes couldn't have put it better when he said, "In the long run we are all dead." But despite cold weather cramps, bursting blisters and thighs numb from 26.2 miles of cement, thousands of death-defying runners triumphantly crossed the Prudential Center finish line Monday...
...Democratic Economist Otto Eckstein, the revenues of U.S. domestic and international oil firms totaled a staggering $346 billion; the after-tax profits totaled $15.6 billion, which was more than three times the earnings of all U.S. auto manufacturers. Still, by any yardstick, oil company profits are not out of line with those in other U.S. industries...
...layered, overlapped look of the paintings: it was cubism made literal. This battered-looking object is Exhibit A in the Guggenheim show. In it, space was for the first time declared to be the prime subject of sculpture, but by means traditional to painting: the flat surface, the boundary line. Since tin sheets do not ask to be stroked, as stone or bronze does, the Guitar was wholly visual sculpture, another mark of the new sensibility. If the word revolutionary still means anything in art, this was a revolutionary work. At one stroke it changed the history...
...tremendous physical talent notwithstanding, the graceful outfielder once battled fly balls as if they were his natural enemies. He forged a peace with hours of after-game practice and, with the same single-mindedness, learned to hit line drives. "People talk about the money I'm making, but I paid my dues," Parker says. "You don't get here without sacrifice, without playing ball eleven months a year for $500 in the minors and winter leagues. I may be a millionaire now, but there was a time when I couldn't pay my electric bill. One week...
...example, to heist Plutonium and fashion bombs to hold the world hostage. Private scientists might produce gene-altering chemicals. Almost any handyman can assemble a plastique weapon aimed at a Prime Minister or a whole city block. It is almost a natural consequence that in fiction, the old-line security bureaucracies, from CIA to KGB to M16, are being outrun by freelancers...