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...squabbling over bones." Yet while tagging along to a trade show in Frankfurt, she can't resist helping him bring off a negotiating coup for a piece of automatic machinery that will replace several workers. Vic charges that Robyn's scholarly concerns have no place on society's balance sheet and that the university's elitism violates her own populist ideals. Yet he soon starts turning up on campus, helping Robyn's faculty committee reorganize a syllabus and shyly thumbing a volume of Tennyson in one of her tutorials...
...heyday, the Lamar Savings Association boasted four large teak elephants in its Austin lobby. They may have impressed the customers, but they did not help the balance sheet. Last week more than 1,000 bidders crowded into a Houston warehouse to see the elephants auctioned off for $1,600 to $2,000 apiece, along with the property of 33 other failed Southwestern thrifts. A 1957 Bentley automobile went for $10,050. Besides computers and other office equipment, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation also sold hand- carved ivory tusks and even two kitchen sinks...
...high school students in New York State, the Regents exams are a crucial rite of passage: doing well greatly improves their chances of getting into college. Last week thousands of students learned that much of their cramming would go to waste, when the New York Post splashed the answer sheet to the Regents chemistry exam across its front page. An angry state education commissioner, Thomas Sobol, postponed the test...
...Post claimed that thousands of bootleg copies of answers to various Regents exams were being sold for as much as $2,000 a copy. A reporter was able to obtain the chemistry answer sheet in 15 minutes by placing two telephone calls. This was not the first case of exam scam. A former yeshiva student was recently arrested for selling copies of tests last year. If convicted, he could be sentenced to twelve years in prison...
...sense of a figure, not described but evoked by a flat vertical plane, behind the glass. Even in a smaller piece like Is, Was (Chancing), 1975-76, there is a fascinating exchange between dark and light, solidity and translucency, underwritten by the economical logic of its making: a single sheet of steel cut and folded, a single plate of glass. And the cables that hold such pieces together are not mere connectors. They are conceived as drawing: exact lines whose tautness is both visual and structural. The ancestor whom they evoke is the pre-1914 Matisse, whose near abstract views...