Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first emerged as a painter, it was with images that looked utterly deadpan: paintings of ocean liners, enlarged from postcards and publicity brochures. But their method was peculiarly systematic, a parody of system, in fact. Squaring the postcard image up to canvas size, Morley would work on it patch by patch, sometimes upside down, stippling away so that each bit of water or hull looked abstract to him, as patterns do when they are isolated and magnified. What counted was not so much the liner as the process of painting it, a concretion of gratuitous labor. If Canaletto had been...
Before the week was over, Regan and Feldstein had managed to patch together a facade of harmony. At a House Appropriations Committee hearing, they sat side by side and contradicted each other on only a point or two. Later, at the end of a Senate session, Democrat William Proxmire of Wisconsin asked Regan why he had said that Feldstein's economic report should be thrown away. "Sorry, Senator," said Regan, "that was last week." The meeting adjourned amid chuckles...
...about a $50 fee for not brushing and flossing twice a day? An unmade bed is a real eyesore; let's make it a $100 mistake. No one shines his shoes anymore, but they would if a patch of unwinking leather cost...
...reliable color scheme has been supplanted by splotches of green, tan and brown. At Smith's store and dozens of others across the country, camouflage wear has become an undisguised rage. In the weeks before Christmas, camouflage outfits for children sold nearly as fast as Cabbage Patch dolls in some locales. And adults, whose need for protective coloration on city streets might seem to be minimal, are snapping up everything from camouflage-colored pants and shirts to jackets, caps, belts, wallets, bandanas, jogging shorts and men's bikini underwear...
When automakers closed their ledgers on 1983, they reported sales of 6.78 million cars, a 17.9% gain over 1982 and the industry's best performance since 1979. Quipped Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "Consumers couldn't buy Cabbage Patch dolls, so they went out and bought cars...