Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their relentless pursuit of a trim figure, American women by the millions have tried exercise wheels, home massage kits, sauna belts, sauna pants and mummy wraps. Now they are turning to something new: the Isotoner Body Beauty Suit, which seems to have a slender edge over the other devices. It requires no effort except for putting it on, and it slims the body, even if no pounds are shed...
Suddenly, however, that most relentless of civil wars appears to be at an end. One day next week, if all goes well, a peace treaty will be signed at Addis Ababa, the capital of neighboring Ethiopia, by the leaders of the two sides: Major General Jaafar Numeiry, President of the Sudan, and Major General Joseph Lagu, commander of the Anyanya...
This is where that relentless pursuit has finally led: straight over the cliff and into a sea where dream and reality merge with haunting fluidity. The most fantastic appearances are lent an ceric reality by celluloid and by the night. At night and on film, the huge painted sky shadowing Twentieth's "Western Town" (a sky which, by day, seems absurdly naive in its patent fakery) loses its hard edges and seems to soar up into the "real" sky. Its splashes of white cloud float free, lit by a moon whose own reality you cannot feel sure...
...showed off his tires by sponsoring an auto trip from Peking to Paris, and Textile Mogul Giannino Marzotto, who gave his workers vacations in Russia to disillusion them about Communism. Today most of this individualistic breed is gone, pushed aside by modern management techniques, fractious unions and a long, relentless drive by the state to control, modernize and expand the country's industry...
Rare Wit. Occasionally the magisterial tone is broken by a welcome personal note. There is a disarming comment on his television speeches: "This septuagenarian, sitting alone behind a table under relentless lights, had to appear animated and spontaneous enough to seize and hold attention without compromising himself by excessive gestures and misplaced grimaces." There are also rare, redeeming touches of dry wit - as when he writes of his 1958 economic reforms that "virtue is some times rewarded even in France...