Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Consumer Reports article, an evaluation of several loudspeaker systems, the Bose model 901 was criticized for producing sounds that "tended to wander about the room." Bose Corp. sued in federal court in Boston, claiming product disparagement. After extensive testimony from the engineer responsible for the choice of words, the judge hearing the case ruled that the published statement had been false, since the sound actually wandered "along the wall." He further held that Consumers Union was guilty of malice because the engineer was too intelligent to have made the error inadvertently...
...difference a year makes: Shirley the Survivor has become Shirley the Superstar. The aging sprite has ripened into the overpowering character actress. The unfocused dilettante has been redefined as the Renaissance woman. The lovable kook with the carefree sex life and oddball ideas has been transmuted into a role model of a self-possessed, successful woman at 50. Shirley MacLaine, who always attracted affection, now commands respect. Her triumph is proof of the power of positive thinking-and action. MacLaine is lean, fit, happier and more attractive than ever. She has worked hard to keep limber physically and mentally...
...train whistle. Yet the performance is subtly detailed. In a romantic scene with Nicholson, for example, MacLaine softly taps her chest with her balled hand. The gesture signals rather than spontaneously expresses Aurora's sentimentality-because, MacLaine explains, the character is not at ease with her body. The model for Aurora, she adds, was the late Martha Mitchell, wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell: "I had met her on the same book-flogging tour. She was an American heroine, correct and courageous, but with levels of instability-at dinner one night, we changed tables seven times." MacLaine believes...
This totality can only be hinted at in a museum exhibition, so the spotlights are on individual achievements: the sensuousness of Milles' bronze model for Europa and the Bull (depicting Europa as a perplexed Lolita, although she is grown up in the full-scale sculpture); the bold, glazed vases of Maija Grotell; the assertive, colorful fabric designs of Strengell. Most prominent in the show is the best-known achievement of Cranbrook: the furniture and interior design by the Saarinens, the Eameses, Bertoia, Florence Schust Knoll and others. One exhibit replicates a typical mid-century office. Designed by Florence Knoll...
...York and 27 other "open" states let each local district pick its own books. Obviously, the bigger the book order, the greater the clout. In March, Florida's Graham was host of a meeting in Tallahassee of publishers, legislators and educators from 22 states to talk about model schoolbook-selection procedures. Although the group could not agree on specifics, there was one strong message to the publishing industry: if standards are raised, the states will buy the books. California Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig, an aggressive reformer, wants to form a textbook buyers' cooperative. Representatives of Florida...