Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little slow with his schoolbooks. One of Treadup's best assets is the ability to immerse himself in % drudgery, a fate he prepared for as a farm boy in upstate New York and an oarsman for Syracuse, where he heard the call to Jesus. Superficially, Treadup is a model of muscular Christianity. But he is also built to carry a good deal of symbolic weight. "What is moving in his story," writes Hersey, "what may in the end be thought to redeem the obvious failure of his mission in China, is his lifelong struggle to subdue the greater but sicker...
Although Roth deliberately focuses on male relationships, his incidental portrayal of women is suspicious. Cyd (Kathryn Harold), Blue's five-year live-in who abandons him for another painter; Candy (the late Carole Wayne), the voluptuous "submissive" S & M model for Blue's Fiorucci-style erotic paintings, and Liliane (Carole Laure), Eli's "ideal" woman, who works in a chic Los Angeles art gallery, are shown with such a distrustful distance that we never get far past their appearances. These characters are flat, like blank canvasses on which Blue and Eli project their own dreams and anxieties...
Using as a model the works of Afro-American studies scholar Harold Cruse, panelists critiqued the faults and successes of Black intellectuals...
...West German luxury automakers, BMW and Daimler-Benz, have avoided giving any ground on their U.S. prices. Instead, the car companies claim to have compensated for the dollar's rise by providing American customers with extra features at no additional charge. For example, BMW's 735i model, with a base price of $36,880, this year includes a larger engine and a more advanced braking system. "Normally, a redesigned car model would go up 8%," says Stephen Houston, sales manager at a dealership in Santa Monica, Calif. "But you can buy a 1985 BMW with more features for roughly...
...valid, are just one element in admissions decisions. A few educators have suggested replacing the SATs with exams like the E.T.S. Achievement Tests, which measure knowledge rather than aptitude. Owen insists that the Review system could crack their codes too. "Any multiple- choice test built on a statistical model," he writes, "can be beaten...