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...Viscaya is what real estate agents like to describe as "very special." Maybe a little too special. The two-bedroom units in the pencil-thin tower start at $582,500 and go as high as $1.2 million. They come complete with spectacular views, small kitchens (who cooks?), marble baths with Jacuzzi whirlpools and a roof garden for parties. Owner Harold Lynn, 45, a onetime Seventh Avenue clothing importer, admits that the Rolls come-on amounts to a $110,000 discount to perk up sales (twelve of his 21 units are unsold...
...refuge from the storms of competitive Cambridge, in a small and modest white frame house an Appian Way, an English scientist named Francis Crick is handing across a rickety formica a kitchen table to Harvard scientist James D. Watson a many-times of initials are scratched, chart like, in pencil. It is the DNA code...
Writing is never easy, but some people find it far more troublesome than others. For young children, pencil and paper can present Sisyphean problems: by the time some youngsters have formed the letters, they have lost track of what they wanted to say. Moreover, extensive revision, the key to good writing, is sometimes hard to squeeze on a sheet of paper, handwritten or typed. It is a rare and unpopular teacher who requires any but the most superficial rewriting, since changing sentences may mean recopying a whole page...
...their new promotions, Hertz, Avis and National are reluctantly resorting to a tactic pioneered by Budget Rent a Car, the scrappy No. 4 company that has been chipping away at the dominance of the big three. Since 1978, Budget has handed out such premiums as calculators and pen-and-pencil sets. The giveaways and price discounting helped Budget boost its share of the market from about 7% in 1976 to 16% last year, close behind the 17% held by National...
...modern art, he kept on the move. Well before the prestige of minimalism as a historic style began to ebb, Stella was recomplicating his paintings, leading them with a dazzling display of neon, pearly and metallic colors, scribbling over the once sober surfaces with oil stick and grease pencil, and replacing their geometrical symmetries with fantastically wreathing curlicues, squiggles and French curves. It was as though the main theme of art in the past ten years-the move from silence to noise, from polemical emptiness to glutted fullness-had been written, ahead of time, in Stella's work...