Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They stop in clusters of two and three, their eyes widening in astonishment as they stare at the 5-ft.-long model of the Boeing 747 with its hundreds of miniature seats. Details about the disaster have seeped slowly into the Soviet Union, and the pedestrians passing in front of the Japan Air Lines office in downtown Moscow pause to ponder the tragedy of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. "Oh, is that the plane?" asks a wide-eyed schoolgirl. "It's so big." Murmurs her friend: "All those people." The exact death toll of 269 has not been made...
...company is also working on a simple, low-cost version of its best-selling Apple IIe. The Apple IIe would compete directly with the cheaper model of the IBM PC, which may be introduced next month...
Osborne's problems began surfacing early this year. Anticipation of a new model called the Executive killed demand for the Osborne 1. When the new model could not be delivered on time, dealers canceled orders. Then development of an IBM-compatible version of the Executive was also delayed. Adding to Osborne's problems, a dozen companies are now turning out portable models that are more advanced than his pioneering machine. Sales slumped from about 10,000 in February to around 100 in April. Plans for a public stock offering were abandoned. Attempts to find new investors or someone...
...orientation movie for its newest arrivals. The film was sweet; three interwoven plots presented the theme "Discovering Paris" by tracking three sets of starry-eyed tourists from their arrival at the Gare du Nord through their respective monument studded days. The most romantic segment followed a beautiful blonde model from Copenhagen en route to a day's shooting. Arriving early in the morning, the model wandered happily up the Champs Elysees, down the busy thoroughfares...paused at outdoor boutiques to finger exotic clothes...turned her impressive dreamy profile to gaze out at the Seine and Notre Dame and a extravagant...
Today, at 80, retired from writing fiction, Simenon lives in a Swiss retreat with one of his former household maids. Popular fancy has tended to see him as the model for the benign, pipe-smoking Maigret, but Bresler maintains that the only connection is wish fulfillment. Maigret, with his equanimity, his intuitive sympathy for others, his fidelity to one woman, is the man that Simenon never could be. Less plausibly, Bresler attributes Simenon's "stunted sexuality" to his rejection by, and rebellion against, the formidably dour widowed mother he left behind in Liège. (When Simenon...