Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there is the industry's oddball marketing logic, in which automakers raise prices and offer discounts at the same time. Prices of U.S.-made autos have doubled within the decade, to an average of $14,000. "The strength of the deutsche mark and yen caused importers to raise prices rather quickly. But instead of taking advantage of that, American makers raised their prices along with them," says Ron Tonkin, president of the National Automobile Dealers Association. This year buyers can anticipate yet another round of increases, ranging from 4% to 7% on 1990 models. To reduce sticker shock...
...electronic skills have been tested regularly while performing Rule Number Two: never leave the house without turning on the alarm system. Why a home with one key would have three keys for an alarm system defies logic, but I was willing to go along with...
...parents seemed to think that this piece of 16th century logic, combined with a bit of Texas grit and determination, would make my switch from life as an only child in Dallas to life with at least four roommates in the Northeast an easy...
...best, and something more: the sense of a figure, not described but evoked by a flat vertical plane, behind the glass. Even in a smaller piece like Is, Was (Chancing), 1975-76, there is a fascinating exchange between dark and light, solidity and translucency, underwritten by the economical logic of its making: a single sheet of steel cut and folded, a single plate of glass. And the cables that hold such pieces together are not mere connectors. They are conceived as drawing: exact lines whose tautness is both visual and structural. The ancestor whom they evoke...
...taking with drinking, and upholding both. "You can do alcohol. You can do drugs," he admonished. "Just don't drive!" A stodgy European less accustomed to the same blase acceptance of drug taking -- and a good many citizens of Los Angeles for that matter -- would shudder to extend such logic much further...