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...ahead of the Firing Line; it cuts your nets off. This happened to Eddie Wannage a month ago. "It took my Dad 30 hours to make new ones. I lost five prime nights during a full moon," he says. It is dark now, the water as black as used motor oil, and the lights on the rocking boats describe a skyline suffering slippage. No one is taking in much shrimp this night, least of all Eddie, whose nets snare more flounder and speckled trout than anything...
Time and its offspring, movement, have fascinated some modern artists. Sculptors can build it straight into their work -- the last half of the 20th century is full of wind-, gravity- or motor-powered contraptions that range from the balletic (Alexander Calder) to the Rube Goldbergian (Jean Tinguely) -- but a painter has to deal with a still, flat surface. On it, there are two possibilities. The first is to try to render the movement of the object itself, as the futurists did with their racing cars, or the cartoonist does with his speed lines. Mostly this results in illustrations, straightforward...
Rescue efforts got under way immediately. The damaged Pyotr Vasev, which picked up the first survivors, was joined by coast guard launches, tugboats, helicopters, even rowboats. Stanislav Usanov, a motor-launch crewman, said "the people were often so weak that they could not hold on to the hands of the rescuers, so sailors risked their lives by jumping into the water...
...much longer. After a dingdong sales battle, auto-industry experts forecast that by year's end, U.S. car buyers will have crowned another best-selling make. The new champion: Honda, a product from a company that little more than a decade ago was more famous for its motorcycles and motor scooters than for its automobiles. The spunky Japanese car manufacturer, which sold only 9,500 cars in the U.S. during its first season in 1971, expects to sell 650,000 in 1986, nearly 6% of the 11 million-vehicle U.S. auto market. Toyota, by contrast, plans to sell...
...brokerage house, calls "one of the most unusual and creative of all Japanese industrial concerns." Started with 20 employees in 1948 by an inventive garage mechanic, Soichiro Honda (now 79 and retired), the company took only twelve years to claim the title of the world's leading motorcycle and motor- scooter maker. Honda introduced its first car in the Japanese market in 1963, and now manufactures an array of products that range from outboard motors to snowblowers and lawn mowers. Its profits zoomed to a record $532 million in 1985, up 32% from the previous year, on sales of nearly...