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Elsewhere in the country, companies are following the same general pattern. At Griffith Rubber Mills in Portland, Ore., president Scot Laney can read the immediate future of his company written in empty shipping containers. He watches cargo ships steam into the harbor laden with products from Asia. These containers would normally return to Asia full of American products. But now those goods are too expensive in Asia, so the containers stack up on the dock, harbingers of a recession. "It hasn't got to our level yet," says Laney. "But it will. We know it's coming...
...attachment to Indian art as a source of "primitive" authenticity came from museums and exhibitions in New York and was confirmed by other mentors he was acquiring, such as the painter John Graham. Even the sight of Hopi painters running colored sand through their hands to create a pattern on the ground below, so often proposed as the starting point of Pollock's drip painting, came to him not on a Southwestern mountaintop but inside MOMA, which had brought some Hopis to perform in Manhattan...
HARLEQUINI This suit is named after the pattern of the tan you get from wearing...
...basses who rounded out the four-part treble scale), the Vienna Choir Boys sounded withered and disengaged. They found Haydn's notes, but groped for his meaning. The boys sang the first line, "We praise thee, O God!" ambivalence nearer to pity than joy--and set a lackluster pattern for the remainder of the piece...
...This pattern of inconsistency continued. When the choir boys sang Schubert's Psalm No.23, they achieved some exquisite moments of technical flawlessness--and others of bored inertia. The choir boys were not in want of technical skills; only interpretive ones. Psalm No. 23 is a prayer of peace for someone who has realized that his life is in the hands of God. But an audience member might have known nothing about the meaning of the song--and the joy of love or the anticipation of heaven--if the lyrics had not been printed in the program...