Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the ample causes for concern, chances are good that the economy will shake its slump and gather new momentum. That was the consensus of the TIME Board of Economists, which met in New York City this month to discuss the outlook. The economists forecast that GNP growth, after adjustment for inflation, will accelerate from an annual rate of .6% in the second quarter to 2.4% in the last half of the year. For 1987 they predict a sturdy, if not spectacular, 3% growth rate. Said Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota professor who was chairman of the Council...
...form for director Lynch. In the course of his relatively brief career he has given us Eraserhead, an unsung underground classic, The Elephant Man, a bittersweet beauty-and-the-beast parable, and Dune, a $40 million dollar turtlewaxed Edsel. In Blue Velvet Lynch demonstrates with grace and the sheer momentum of genius that he is our most valuable, audacious and unabashed cinematic exorcist. He takes fear, his and ours, and smears it on the big screen. His canvas is dazzling, replete with hyperorganic imagery and an almost primal compulsion to confront man's inner self. And at 40 years young...
Edward Sweda, the state health lobbyist for the Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP), was optimistic about the ordinance's chances. "With the momentum that we've acquired today with the Surgeon General, we're confident that we will be successful in getting it passed this year," he said. Sweda also said he expected a "milder version" of the proposal to pass in the Massachusetts legislature this year...
...momentum in the seesaw war has increasingly swung in Iran's favor. In February, Tehran staged its most sophisticated assault of the long and bloody conflict. Named Val Fajr (I Swear by the Dawn), the attack seized the Iraqi oil port of Fao. Iraq recovered briefly by capturing the Iranian border town of Mehran in May, only to lose it again in June. Though it enjoys an enormous advantage in equipment, its reliance on rigid defensive tactics makes its soldiers vulnerable to the night attacks and lightning raids of its enemy. "Remember," says a senior U.S. official, "the Iranians...
...20th century, which, in cultural matters, really began around 1880, this changed. After 1910 the momentum of change was plain to all. Why do we always speak of "modern sculpture" but never of "modern statues"? Because one of the criteria of modernity itself was the degree to which sculptors angled their work away from the accepted forms of social communication via the human figure. Not because they lost interest in the figure -- on the contrary, the years 1900-1950 were rich in figure sculpture and body-haunted objects by Matisse, Picasso, Archipenko, Brancusi, Miro, Calder, Giacometti and others -- but because...