Word: modell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cumulative $16 million deficit, Giamatti will have to find ways to preserve Yale's excellence with a smaller exchequer. The new president's mandate, described somewhat bizarrely by William Bundy, presidential search committee head, is to redesign Yale into "the Cadillac Seville of education"?still a luxury model, but smaller and presumably somewhat less costly to keep up. He must also restore harmony between faculty and administration, now deep in what Yale Historian Peter Gay claims is a "we and they" cold war, and calm town-gown tensions exacerbated by a blue-collar strike. He must also placate...
After a thundering 1977 model year, automobile executives are scrutinizing the latest sales figures with the anxiety and puzzlement of early-morning dockers timing the latest workout by an erratic race horse. Overall, the car industry's performance has been disappointing of late. Domestic sales dropped by 6.3% in the first ten days of December, the third decline in a row. General Motors sales were down by nearly 14% from last year's, while Chrysler and American Motors slumped by 8.4% and 29%, respectively...
...fitted sideways under the hood. That saves enough space to permit a surprisingly roomy interior in a relatively small car. Moreover, there is no transmission tunnel running back through the passenger cabin to cramp leg room. GM offers front-wheel drive on some Cadillac and large Oldsmobile Toronado models and is preparing a small front-wheel-drive car for the 1979 model year. Ford is importing the front-wheel-drive Fiesta from Europe, where it has proved highly successful with cost-conscious buyers...
...playing the game is the thing for most people, there are a driven few who have bigger dreams: creating new games. "Inventors send us everything from a finished model to an idea sketched on the back of a paper bag," says Jack McMahon, head of the development group for Parker Bros., the big Massachusetts game manufacturer responsible for Monopoly, that company's alltime bestseller. A couple of years ago an extraordinary little group managed to get a shoe in Parker Bros.' door: a Cambridge astronomer named Robert Doyle, his wife Holly, an astrophysicist who taught at Harvard...
...camera is, it seems, the me chanical dandy par excellence. It is also the model of free choice. Sontag gives a wry account of the uses of photography in China, where "candid" shots are considered insulting and counterrevolution ary; there, photography, like every other mode of language, exists mainly to propagate ideology, and every image must be wholesome, posed, evenly lit, smiling; the camera is Big Brother's eye on the happy termitary. It is a repugnant alternative to the fragmented image, but, as Sontag gloomily concedes, there are no practicable alternatives...