Word: predictableness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very unsure," torn by "inner conflicts" and who thus respond to a Ford gaffe one day, a Carter gaffe the next. "People are uneasy about Carter and find Ford an acceptable alternative," says Yankelovich. He emphasizes, as do Gallup and Harris, that polls are not supposed to predict future results. "The figures can only tell you how the voters feel at a given moment in time," he says, and the voters may not feel that way on Election...
...draftsmanship, traced with wire in air: portraits of Jimmy Durante and the shimmying Josephine Baker, or a farouche she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus through six wooden drawer pulls that serve as her teats. Often there is a prophetic note. Calder's motorized sculptures of the '30s predict the kinetic art of the '60s and are fulfilled in such giant works as Universe (1974), in Chicago's Sears Tower...
Enrollment over the last decade has gone as high as 950, and as low as 500. "We gain out of problems in the economy," Duesenberry said, "but you can't predict anything...
Jeroboams of joy are also bubbling over in Champagne country, where the wine is already pressed and fermenting in the limestone caves. Some experts predict that 1976 will be the best year since 1893. Joseph Dargent, head of the Champagne Growers Association, exults: "The only thing that could change it from a truly remarkable vintage is an earthquake that would topple the barrels and spill the juice." Happily, earthquakes in Champagne are about as common as truffles on trees...
Even with the expected price increases, the wines should be a good value. Indeed, shippers predict that Americans, who already consume nearly 20% of all French wine exports, will buy more than ever this year. After all, what American wine lover could resist laying down a great bottle carrying the label...