Word: popping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bigger towns might consider it a boondoggle or an eyesore. But the depressed West Texas ranching town of Marfa (pop. 2,500) is delighted about the economic benefit of a 240-ft. radar surveillance balloon that the Customs Service has tethered nearby and plans to fly at an altitude of 14,000 ft. One of six in a planned network along the Mexican border, the helium-filled aerostat can spot suspected drug-smuggling planes up to 200 miles away, then flash data to authorities who will try to intercept the aircraft...
...billion and assume $1.2 billion in debts. Coming less than two years after Sony's $2 billion purchase of CBS Records, the acquisition completes the transformation of the maker of Walkmans, televisions, stereos and videocassette players from gadgeteer to master showman. Sony now hopes to market American pop culture through leading- edge Japanese technologies in film, television and music...
Slovenia (pop. 2.1 million), one of the six republics and two autonomous provinces that make up Yugoslavia, provided a reminder last week of why the word Balkanization is a synonym for divisiveness. Meeting in the capital of Ljubljana, the republic's parliament overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment allowing Slovenia to secede from the Yugoslav federation. Though a split is not imminent, the move was seen as insurance for the Slovenes against growing Serbian nationalism. Slovenia, which shares borders with Italy and Austria, boasts the nation's most prosperous economy. But it is dependent on raw materials from the rest...
...later styles of 20th century painting and sculpture can be defined through either their origins in Cubism or their opposition to it. Abstract art comes out of the virtual disappearance of the recognizable nude or still life from Braque's and Picasso's work in the autumn of 1911. Pop art is born in the letters, headlines and brand names they stenciled and glued onto their surfaces. Constructivist sculpture descends from Braque's paper constructions and Picasso's tin guitar. Abstract Expressionism gets its originality from its struggle to "escape the Cubist grid" -- which was never a grid anyway. Cubism...
Though they live in the small village of Makov (pop. 4,754), where only about half the people have running water, the Dulls are comfortably housed in a former Communist Party hunting lodge in the midst of a game reserve teeming with wild animals. The Dulls have been given a car and gasoline and receive a monthly stipend of about $700 apiece. Soviet farm workers make as little as 90 rubles ($140) a month...