Word: predictableness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem the obvious relay station between the crags and glaciers of the 19th century sublime and the jagged forms of Clyfford Still. To a New York audience, Tack's extraordinarily subtle paintings, which mediate between abstraction and landscape imagery, will seem almost familiar -be cause they predict and predate so much American painting of the '50s. Even the rhetoric is familiar; one finds Tack in 1920 describing a 'valley . . . walled in by an amphitheatre of mountains as colossal as to seem an adequate setting for the Last Judgment...
...Orioles were plagued with contract problems and never really got started. And the Royals might have won except for a bad call in the ninth inning of the last game. But for the sake of purity, the Reds must stem the unpure tide from the Bronx. I predict that the series will go no less than four game, nor more than seven. And the Reds are going to win most of the games...
Only 22% of those polled said they may not vote on Nov. 2. But this figure is probably an understatement and certainly not a reliable guide to what people will actually do on Election Day. Thus the experts who predict that only about half the electorate will vote may be right. The turnout of voters has steadily declined since 1960 (see chart). The drop was particularly sharp in 1972 because people aged 18 to 21 were eligible for the first time, and they are less inclined to vote than others. This year, says Daniel Yankelovich, "the election bears...
Those are the match-ups, and to be truthful, the statistics don't mean much in the five-game series which starts tonight. Since I've mentioned Sports Illustrated, I might as well use that publication to predict the winner. The Reds, you see, have made five SI covers in the last year (Johnny Bench twice, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and now Foster), and the Phils have made it just once, with Schmidt. The Reds, obviously, will get the ol' Si jinx...
Neither Bethell or Cronin could predict how long the search for a new publisher would take...