Word: milles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early 1970s, Lichtenstein was fond of quoting Matisse, that supreme artificer of images denoting calm and luxurious revery. Run through Lichtenstein's mill, however, the images lost this aura entirely, becoming stark, neutral or even disagreeable. The three fish in Still Life with Goldfish, 1972, a broad transcription from one of Matisse's still lifes of 60 years before, wear dyspeptic expressions and seem not at all pleased with the painting of a giant Lichtenstein golf ball on the wall behind them...
...Caliguiri's lock on his job is that he has presided over one of the few success stories among cities of the recession-plagued Northeast. Despite high unemployment in the steel industry, corporations have invested $1.5 billion in new office buildings, speeding Pittsburgh's transition from mill town to corporate center. Caliguiri is spending millions more to repair bridges, build water and sewer systems and upgrade housing in the city's older neighborhoods. Predicts the mayor: "Pittsburgh is going to be the first major city in the Northeast to see actual gains in population." (It lost...
February 24--Black students hold a "mill-in" at University Hall to urge President Bok to divest Harvard's holding in Gulf Oil, which they say "facilitates the daily slaughter of Africans" by its investments in the former Portuguese colony of Angola...
...policy, though, has been glaringly inconsistent. For example, Armco steel was barred in March 1980 from joining a Japanese steel firm in constructing a $350 million cold-rolling mill in Novolipetsk. But Caterpillar was granted approval late last year to supply pipelaying equipment used in building the 3,000-mile Yamal Peninsula natural gas pipeline. A semiconductor chip that U.S. companies cannot sell to the Soviets has been licensed for production in Brazil, which is not bound by the embargo. The microchip, in fact, is a component in a popular computer game that is for sale in Western European...
...chance for the big bucks comes when a wily Chicago entrepreneur (Humbert Allen Astredo) offers the trio a deal to build a cotton mill if the Hubbards will share the costs. The hitch is that Regina's share lies in the bank vault of her husband Horace (Tom Aldredge), who is precariously ill in a Baltimore hospital. He loathes the Hubbards for their vulpine avarice and has long been estranged from Regina. She sends the daughter (Ann Talman), whom Horace loves, to haul him back, and proceeds to cajole and curse him, but Horace is adamant...