Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stereotype of Tobey had emerged, and it was to affect his reputation in American art: the sage of the Pacific Northwest, perched on a misty crag, making exquisitely obscure calligraphic doodles. Tobey had worked for a year in China. At that time it was hardly possible for a painter to have done this without being regarded, in some circles, as a perambulating bodhisattva...
...respect for Hitchcock's stature, and his years, Family Plot should be considered as fleetingly as possible. It is a comedy thriller gone awry, vulgar, lifeless and maladroit. The script is by Ernest Lehman, who wrote the witty screenplay for Hitchcock's sumptuous self-parody, North by Northwest. Here the writing is less like satire than putdown. At one point, Bruce Dern, who plays a scuffling actor/cab driver named Lumley, grouses to his girl friend, a self-proclaimed medium: "You've really got me by the crystal balls...
...massed on the huge cobblestoned square, in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace. Suddenly, a scuffle broke out between demonstrators and militiamen guarding the monument; a student from Tsinghua University was badly bloodied. Some in the crowd tried to storm the Great Hall of the People on the northwest corner of the square; rallies were held on the steps and demands were made to file petitions with the party leadership. Later several cars were overturned and burned, and a fire engine rushing to the scene was wrecked, while policemen were assaulted, and several dozen were injured...
Small Profit. Last year the nation's 11 major scheduled lines had a collective loss of $110 million v. a profit of $321 million in 1974. Only five carriers managed to make a profit in 1975: Northwest, Delta, Braniff, Western and National. The nation's largest line, United, which on top of everything else was grounded for 16 days in December by a mechanics' strike, registered a loss of $7.7 million for 1975-and has already dropped another $35 million in the first two months of this year...
...about 100 miles north of San Francisco, where it meets the Pacific Ocean. The fault is actually the boundary of two tectonic plates, huge sections of the earth's outer layer that are sliding in opposite directions. A western sliver of California, on the Pacific plate, is moving northwest. The remainder of the state is being carried by the North American plate toward the southeast...