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Constant Refrain. Whatever the Johnsonian moves meant, they stirred speculation and kept his name and image before the nation. In his speechmaking, the President touched frequently on the myriad crises that have overtaken his ill-starred Administration. He emphasized the "urgent" need for enactment of his 10% surcharge on income taxes and for the adoption of "a program of national austerity to ensure that our economy will prosper and that our fiscal position will be sound." For the first time, he came out with a warm endorsement of the Kerner Commission report on last summer's riots. Having previously...
Chilling is no overstatement, for Judd's works, commercially fabricated of Plexiglas, anodized aluminum, stainless steel Or galvanized iron have all the cosy warmth and intimacy of an assembly line or a bank vault. Still, the gallerygoers strolling among them seem to derive considerable visual satisfaction from the myriad reflections and subtler shadows cast by their repetitive surfaces. If they care to disobey the rules, moreover, and meditate on the symbolism of Judd's boxes, the possibilities are endless. What is a box, they say, if not a coffin, a house, a treasure chest? As for that series...
...Myriad of Myths. Galbraith's latest published work, The New Industrial State, a bestseller for the past 31 weeks, is an even more ambitious book. In it, Galbraith sets out to describe the modern economic structure minus the myriad myths that surround it. What he finds in the U.S. is a phalanx of giant companies, perhaps 500 in all, dominating the landscape. The competitive market has largely disappeared, the victim of an advertising machine that creates and manipulates demand (mostly, he maintains, by means of commercial TV). Well-schooled technicians and managers?the "technostructure"?run the show. Though...
...glass designs were put together by Constructivist Naum Gabo and the Bauhaus' Laszlo Moholy-Nagy back in the 1920s, their results amounted to little more than experiments, designed to illustrate the constructivist tenet that space plays as vital a role in sculpture as mass. It remained for a myriad of advanced synthetics and plastics to make see-through sculpture a burgeoning art form in the 1960s (see color opposite...
...sales of $1.02 billion. Eastern's profits went from $14,713,000 to $24,114,000. Despite the apparent improvement, though, most airlines are suffering because of huge outlays for new planes, rising labor costs and the low profitability of their myriad fare-discount plans...