Word: pyramiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Business School is the preeminent institution in the field and it can and should lead by example," Shad said upon announcing his grant. "In effect, we're starting at the top of the pyramid--with the outstanding faculty and student of the Harvard Business School--but this experience will ultimately permeate the pyramid's much broader base...
...Occultists have long proclaimed the mystical energies of Egypt's Great Pyramid. Now thousands are touting a pyramid again. This time, the draw is money. In Los Angeles and elsewhere, a new form of the long familiar pyramid game, called "Airplane," is luring investors with profits of up to $12,000 on a $1,500 ante -- if they can get on board soon enough. Participants buy into an eight-person "plane," then work their way up to "pilot," and bail out with cash. One Los Angeles player claims her profits flew to almost...
...downer is that a pyramid payoff requires an ever larger supply of new investors, until eventually the scheme crashes. To protect the unwary, pyramid games have been made illegal in most states. Even so, the craze has spread on college campuses: at the University of Maryland, automated teller machines ran short of cash this month after one high-flying weekend...
...message as entertaining as possible. Many rooming groups record spoofs of popular shows or personalities. One Leverett group's message parodied Robin Leach, host of TV's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Goldenberg says. One Quincy suite taped a mock-up of the game show $25,000 Pyramid...
...realism, was a single, living entity, pervaded by "cosmic" energies; these revealed themselves in "vibrations," the formative agents of all material shapes. Hence the desire to paint archetypal forms, so that Mondrian's rectangles and Kandinsky's floating circles are to be read as a kind of sacred geometry, pyramid power in paint. Hence, too, the peculiar use of light by artists like Franticek Kupka -- a shuddering, lyric vibration that implies the sublimities of landscape without describing them. Then there is the imagery of duality and paired opposites -- light-dark, vertical-horizontal -- and of synesthesia, whereby colors correspond to musical...