Word: shrunken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same one) was Object (Roses des Vents), which Cornell began in 1942, tinkered with for years-as was his habit, there being few precise dates or prompt solutions in his work-and finished in 1953. Emblems of travel, dwarfed mementos, a little box of mummified waves and shrunken coasts, peninsulas, planets, things set in compartments with an air of rigorous sentiment, each of the 21 compass needles insouciantly pointing in a different direction: it is the log of no ordinary voyage. (Even the map on the inside of the lid depicts an excessively remote coastline, that of the Great Australian...
...union was something of a marriage of convenience between two shrunken giants. Rolls-Royce, whose models range from the $85,300 Silver Shadow to the $155,800 Corniche convertible, has found that inflation and recession are slowing down even the superrich. The three-year waiting list for its cars in Britain has evaporated, and a buyer with the money can now walk in and get one right off the showroom floor. U.S. sales in 1979 fell off 10%, to 1,002. Moreover, Rolls' diesel-engine division is in trouble, mainly because a $150 million contract to make Iranian tank...
...best placed to withstand the current tempest, and will probably be the only Big Three automaker to earn a profit this year. Its very successful X cars, such as the Chevrolet Citation and the Buick Skylark, are helping the company maintain its market share. This fall GM will introduce shrunken or downsize intermediate cars like the Chevrolet Monte Carlo and Buick Regal. Its J car is due in April 1981, and will be a sporty subcompact successor to such models as the Chevy Monza...
...revels in sex and sin. Harry Dean Stanton is properly menacing as the conniving Asa Hawks who wants to torture Haze in a fraudulent game of redemption. Daniel Shor fusses and leaps about hilariously in an ape suit as the deranged Enoch Emery, whose new Jesus is a shrunken South American mummy stolen indiscreetly from the city MVSEVM. And Ned Beatty, the only "name" in the cast, appears fleetingly as the entrepreneurial Hoover Shoats...