Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rise in this admirable artist's reputation over the past ten years has had much to do with the slow realization in America that serious art is indivisible, that the mere fact of being American does not conscript a painter into a doomed Oedipal struggle with his European ancestors, that the battlegrounds of art history soon revert to pastures. There is no secret about Motherwell's sources: cubist collage, surrealism, Matisse. In fact, his own collages -perhaps the most consistently beautiful body of work produced by any artist in the past five years-could not exist without...
Carew's climb to prominence-to being a folk hero in two nations-was long and slow, tempered by illness and early poverty. On Oct. 1, 1945, Olga Carew knew her baby was due and started the journey by train from Gatun, on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone, to Gamboa, where doctors in the clinic could attend the child's birth. But the baby would not wait, so Margaret Allen, a nurse, and Dr. Rodney Cline, a physician, both of whom happened to be aboard the train, delivered the woman's second son. The nurse...
...when an influx of foreign currency sharply forced up the value of the Swiss franc, the Swiss National Bank tried to slow down the flow by imposing a 10% quarterly negative interest rate on large nonresident accounts in Swiss banks. But most institutions got around the rule by accepting this nervous money in "fiduciary" (trust) accounts to be invested in Eurodollar deposits-a safe investment yielding modest returns. The safety of the investments was crucial, since by Swiss law the banks could not issue guarantees on the accounts without incurring a 35% withholding...
FIUMICINO. 9.5 million passengers last year. Averages 453 landings and takeoffs daily. Three runways, 72 airlines. Delays: foreign, rare; domestic, improving but no cigar. Accessibility: bad. Allow 45 min. to an hour by car or cab ($15) for 22-mile ride downtown. Flow Through: slow. No curbside checkin. Baggage carts hard to find. No moving sidewalks. TV screens, showing departure gates, not always functioning. Longest walk: 1,300 ft. Baggage checkout: 20 min. Immigration and customs: airport's only delight. Hotels/Motels: pleasant, modern facilities near beach at Ostia, five miles away. Amenities: substandard. Coffee bars (espresso 30?, Coke...
...appeared in 15 Wimbledons, always to crumple under the pressure of carrying her nation's hopes. This time, Wade, now 31, fought her way into the finals against Holland's solid Betty Stove, 32, who at 6 ft. 1 in., 160 lbs. is the strong -and slow-journeywoman of the circuit. In the first set of their face-off the Wade Wimbledon Choke appeared ready to repeat itself as the Englishwoman, playing tentatively, lost 4-6. But it was Stove who then fell apart, double-faulting repeatedly, while Wade settled down and carried the last sets...