Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason the U.S. Government has been in a quandary about what to do on the issue of acid-rain pollution is the widespread assumption that the cost of a cleanup would be prohibitive. Now a computer model of the economic impact of two acid-rain-control bills before Congress suggests the opposite is true...
...contribution to the debate, I put before the world the reactions of my friend Billy. After opening the magazine, his eyeballs left their sockets and beads of sweat gathered on his forehead. While wetting his lips, he traced the curves of each model's body with his index finger...
...Jane V. Anderson, who teaches psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, * contended that she was the model for Joan Gilling, a central character in both the book and the movie. Claiming that the film defamed and humiliated her by presenting Gilling as a suicidal lesbian, she brought suit in a Boston federal court. The 14 individual and corporate defendants included Plath's widower, the British poet laureate Ted Hughes, who sold the movie rights of her novel for $60,000, as well as the filmmakers and two television companies that showed the movie, CBS and Time Inc.'s Home Box Office...
...source -- his feeble paint-by- numbers rendering of details from Gericault and Ribera, for instance -- one is struck by his inability to put any vitality at all into the relation between the motif and the traces of the hand, to create an interesting shape, or even to model a form convincingly. But there is an out: Salle's graphic ineptitude is praised by his fans as a kind of fallen representation, as though it were a critique of affectlessness. Thus his work is credited with exposing what it merely embodies. This is a no-lose situation, under which the artist...
...cruise control repaired on his 1985 Buick Century. Finally, he gave up when the mechanics made it clear that they no longer wanted to deal with his problem. Jane Ullman, a Santa Monica, Calif., sculptor, thought her refrigerator problems were over when deliverymen installed a new deluxe model in her kitchen. But her woes were just beginning; the workmen broke the refrigerator's copper pipes, which took several visits from repairmen to fix. "People have learned to take shoddy service in stride," she says wearily. Even when they speak up and get their money back, consumers often come away with...