Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some shopaholics can afford what they buy, but others cannot. Brad, a telecommunications-company worker in Chicago, is 31, but his cravings have already forced him into bankruptcy -- twice. "I couldn't make my minimum payments on credit cards, and I went out and bought a new car," he notes...
The fierce empiricism of Masaccio, determined to fill real space with real figures that the senses could know, made its mark on some painters but not others. Perspective in 15th century Siena was something an artist could use as a scaffolding, modify or abandon altogether; Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni, active...
At NUMMI the Japanese do not come to work late and will stay past quitting time unquestioningly if there is a job left undone. But they have "loosened up," says assistant plant manager Jesse Wingard. "You can get them to break for a cup of coffee, and there's a...
On Dec. 24 at 4:30 p.m. EST, the news will be broken, when the Atlanta- based network airs CNN Presents the TIME Man of the Year, with anchor Mary Anne Loughlin and correspondent Mark Walton as co-hosts. The 30-minute program, produced in association with TIME, will explain...
Suppose E.T. had not been a sweet-tempered little brown guy. Suppose, instead, he had been a sweet-tempered woman built like a movie star -- Kim Basinger, say. On the face and figure of it, there is something to be said for this switcheroo. All right, she seems to be...