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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vice Chairman: Gerald M. Levin...
...sense they trust me," says Jonathan Licht, a San Diego neurologist. "You tell them, 'You're O.K.' They say, 'No, I'm not O.K. I think I have a brain tumor.' Then they keep asking, 'How do you really know...
...m an urban creature; the countryside frightens me," says Kyoto-born Noboru Tsubaki, whose Fresh Gasoline, 1989, a 9-ft.-high bulbous yellow pod, is the most startling work in the show. The creepy beauty and rich surface texture of Tsubaki's monstrous blob, with tentacle-like branches sprouting from its top, recall a fascination with the grotesque that characterized some Japanese avant-garde art of the 1950s and early '60s. Its inspiration: Japan's bombed-out landscape after World War II. Strains of this extreme aesthetic are still visible today in the ghoulish makeup and gestures of butoh dancers...
...recession does occur, it may well be triggered by a sharp erosion in consumer confidence. Americans are saddled with hefty debt loads and could easily become jittery if the economy weakens. Says Doris Drury, president of the Center for Business and Economic Forecasting in Denver: "I'm leery of debt. If we could have a recession on the order of 1981 or '82, that could be a real problem." Consumer debt has increased from $1.7 trillion to $3.3 trillion since the expansion began in late 1982. If Americans cut back abruptly on their spending, the effects would ripple through...
...videos, videotaping equipment and a secret room hidden behind a moving bookcase. Caruso and her boyfriend, she recalls, used to joke that Stevens was the Green River killer. One day she even asked Stevens about it. "Don't start that rumor," he reportedly answered. "People around here think I'm weird enough...