Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago he beat out three other candidates to become chairman of First Chicago Corp., parent of First National Bank of Chicago. He savors the perks: the chauffeured limo that picks him up in the exurbs at 6 a.m.; the ballroom-sized corner office decorated with Oriental artifacts to remind him of his recent trip to China...
...light-filled space, saturated with color-not the sober browns and grays of cubism, but the full radiance of the spectrum from high yellow through to ultramarine, with a vestigial slice of trusswork from the Eiffel Tower rising in the top third of the painting to remind one that this was a view of Paris-made a deep impression on the young German, to whom color had an absolute value. But instead of following Delaunay into abstraction, he grafted his color system onto the figure; paintings like Pierrot, 1913, were the result...
...Gadsden, one of the several outside directors who hoped that the president could stay on. Both Ford and lacocca can be at times charming, abrasive, cordial and arch. A clash of their personalities was all but inevitable from the moment that Ford, the celebrated heir who liked to remind subordinates that "my name is on the building," elevated lacocca, the ambitious hired manager, to president in 1970. Early rumored to have the inside track on the job of chief executive upon Ford's retirement at the age of 65 in 1982, lacocca made the mistake of encouraging subordinates...
Essays on surrealism, the mimetic faculty, Brecht and the Austrian polemicist Karl Kraus support Hannah Arendt's claim that Benjamin was the most important German critic between the world wars. His romantic attachment to anarchy and violence as messianic salvations may remind some readers of Norman Mailer at his steamiest. Yet at times, Benjamin's insights cast prophetic shadows. On the effect of film and advertising, for example: "Before a child of our time finds his way clear to opening a book, his eyes have been exposed to such a blizzard of changing, colorful, conflicting letters that...
...gape. The book is not a focused piece on the spread of psychosurgery, and it is difficult to find in the book evidence for the growing acceptance of its practice that Chavkin continually denounces. At times, too, the book rambles, reaching as far back as the '30s to remind readers of the story of a group of southern blacks who were unknowingly given syphilis so that scientists could observe their reactions to trial medications...