Word: owing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supposed to be the end-all. "You look at my work," says Biederman, now 63, "and you don't see technology." What you do see is a perfect balance of angles, colors, shadows and reflections that provide the dynamics for a rich visual experience. They plainly owe their geometry to Mondrian, their spatial dimensionality to the Russian constructivists, their crisp colors to the De Stijl movement. But by logically extending the discoveries of his predecessors, Biederman has created an art form of his own, with tools unique to his own time...
...former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, offered his view in a paper presented to the American Economic Association. He argued that black-owned businesses tend to be small, precariously financed beauty parlors, food stores, and other personal-service or retail establishments catering to a poor market. Most of them owe their existence largely to residential segregation, said Brimmer. Negroes have dim prospects of founding businesses that can compete with white-owned establishments for a broader market, he said, and even in serving Negroes they will have increasing trouble competing with national firms that are showing a new interest in the Negro...
...full of small ironies and is dotted with nostalgic references to other movies in the master's long career. In this respect, a particularly great sequence is an embrace-assassination scene, which, besides recalling Notorious and North by Northwest, reminds us of the debt Chabrol, Truffaut and countless others owe to this Hollywood filmmaker...
...Besides the absurdity of such a procedure, it would also fly in the face of the historical fact that you did graduate from Harvard and did get your doctoral degree here. Whether or not you owe anything to her for this period of your intellectual development is something you will have to settle with yourself...
...feeling is that I owe Harvard the admission that one can get a good academic education there, but beyond this, I owe very little to an institution that prefers to offend me rather than interfere even slightly with the smooth functioning of its bureaucracy for alumni affairs...