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...shot down by MIGs of the tiny (36 jets) North Vietnamese air force. What McConnell wanted to know was how the Thunderchief, a big brute of a plane with speeds up to 1,400 m.p.h., had been bested in combat by the snail-paced (730 m.p.h.) MIG-17, a relic of the Korean...
...stunt worthy of Gulley Jimson? Hundertwasser, 36, is not fictional and is twice as eccentric. He writes steamy manifestoes, the most famous of which praised rust, rot and decay as mankind's truest friends. Now living in Venice, he sometimes dresses like an unholy relic in caftan, brocaded jacket and boots, sometimes in a kimono to match his Japanese wife. He painted his Citroën sedan in varying hues of metallic violet and noted it in his life catalogue as his 445th work of art. The rest of his 611 recorded works are the product of a wise...
...salesmanship often reflects this disdain. Auto companies tell of suppliers who refuse business because added orders might "upset stability" of production. And the Economist describes a visit to a British plant in which "you will be taken aside to see the real pride of the firm, some ghastly Edwardian relic which, it is explained, is now miraculously working almost as well as in 1905, except that two men have to be kept constantly at work to redust...
...revolution, which is to become a religion. The esthetic irony of the Moscow troupe's reappearance on the Broadway scene is that 41 years have effected a reversal of roles. It is the Russian actor who now appears to be all surface, a musty relic of the past, embalmed in the stylized rituals of ballet and the overstatements of vaudeville. By contrast, the American actor performs his abiding task, which is the intense psychological probing of every nuance of inner torment...
...delivered or services rendered? The amount of money in circulation should not depend on the chances of gold being found or even on the bad temper of Charles de Gaulle, but rather on the measurable requirements of a modern economy. That gold in Fort Knox is a most fantastic relic of an ancient age. Give all the gold to the French and let De Gaulle become another King Midas...