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...Detroit's makers are joining the move to convertibles. Says American Motors Chairman Paul Tippett: "We think they are a fad." Indeed, there are a few signs that the new market is in a lull. Chrysler has cut production of its convertibles to 100 a day from 250 and slashed the price of its Dodge 400 by 25% from $13,500 to below...
...initial lull allowed a few high school seniors to hit the library. One woman, from Washington D.C., said she had spent the afternoon in the Winthrop House library, working on a term paper on "Immigration's Effect on the Progressive Era in the 20th Century...
...prize at the Venice Biennale (back when the Biennale mattered) heralded the "imperial" entry of American art into Europe. The unwanted reward of a career like Rauschenberg's is premature old-masterhood, followed by a cooling in the audience. This happened in the late '70s, when a lull was felt in his work...
...Meanwhile, pickets would vie for press attention, and lobbyists for varying causes would voice their grievances. Says Ostling: "Naturally, these groups would cozy up to the press corps to get coverage, and soon sideshows were upstaging the main event." After the veil was lifted, says Ostling, "there was a lull in press coverage. Some bishops thought that when they were more mysterious, they were more attractive. But soon enough, a tremendous interest in the bishops' every move was reborn...
Surf. Waterfalls. Rivers. Country Roads. Video Fish. Even Video Fireplace. Images to lull the senses and, in some cases, deaden the pain; Muzak for the eyes. Video entrepreneurs are selling 60 taped minutes of soothing pictures for folks to turn their televisions into environmental lullabies. Most of the cassettes were initially marketed to hospitals, doctors and dentists, but, reports James Spencer, president of Environmental Video Inc. of Manhattan Beach, Calif., "we are finding that the consumer is more interested than the medical market." The tapes are made to glance at, to distract, not to watch. Sitting down for a serious...