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When a composition with many figures worked for Zurbaran, it was almost always arranged in friezelike planes parallel to the picture surface, producing a solemn, stiff effect (sometimes hieratic, more often creakingly earnest), as in his paintings of St. Hugh and the Virgin of Mercy for the Carthusians at Las Cuevas. This was an archaic, almost Gothic patterning -- inside which his genius for simplified form could produce the most ravishing episodes of detail, as in the folds and loopings of the monks' white habits in The Virgin of Mercy. It is one of the things that commends Zurbaran to modernist...
Another dramatic parallel is the emergence of a new financial center where cash-laden investors are bidding wildly. In the 1920s that place was Manhattan; today it is Tokyo. In the overheated Tokyo exchange, shares are trading at about triple the level of Wall Street stocks in terms of the ratio of prices to corporate earnings. Says Eric Shubert, an international economist for Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "Lots of inexperienced people in Tokyo are playing the market; they have switched from comic books to the stock pages, just as in America in the 1920s millions of people switched from baseball...
Without my knowledge, whole paragraphs with no basis in fact had been inserted to slant the story in an angle parallel to the political extremism espoused by the editor-in-chief, giving a distorted view of the circumstances...
Design of consumer products, on the other hand, tends toward the conventional -- as it does in the U.S. In neither country are there industrial-design stars in the European manner, and the transpacific parallel is probably not coincidental. Says Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a professor of art at Tokyo University of Art and Design: "In the wake of World War II, we learned American culture through the designs of goods at PX's -- by way of lamps, shoes, clothing -- not through the English language." And often they learned the banal dialect of mass-market American design...
...transatlantic crossings, where planes cannot be monitored by ground-based radar, airliners are assigned parallel tracks that can be at the same altitude but are 60 miles apart. To make sure they are on course, crews are expected to log their position at waypoints based on latitude and longitude and to report it by radio to air controllers. At best, this could alert the monitoring stations to any developing danger, and the controllers could suggest changes in course, altitude or speed...