Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Life is especially hard in the north. Families in Hanoi are permitted only 75 sq. ft. of living space per person-roughly the recommended allowance for prisoners in U.S. federal penitentiaries. Factory hands must work six days a week, and spend the seventh at political meetings or on "volunteer" construction projects. Privately owned automobiles are all but nonexistent, and spare parts for bicycles are in short supply. "There is a great deal of unhappiness," says a Hanoi-based diplomat. "People are starting to complain privately. One of the whispered questions heard most often is an ironic one: 'What...
Buying one's own apartment is still largely an upper-income phenomenon, since the mortgage and maintenance can cost as much as 50% more than renting the same space. Developers commonly claim that most of the rental tenants elect to buy their apartments rather than move. But, says Gary Lowe, a leader of a consumer group called CHAIN (for California Housing, Action and Information Network), "Certainly in California, less than 5% of renters buy into a condominium. And no wonder. They can't afford...
...alternative Kentucky Derby called the Festival of New American Plays. Clearly, the seedling has become a sapling. It can be as much cram course as festival. This year, thanks to the prodigious efforts of the theater's staff and the resident actors, one could attend, within the space of two days, six plays and three workshop productions. Playwrights, like Thoroughbreds, are notoriously unpredictable. The best one can do is to spot a "natural...
Veteran Avant-Gardist Brant, 65, has long believed space is as important an element in composition as pitch or time values. In such works as Prevailing Winds (1974), for woodwind quintet, or the orchestral piece Antiphony One (1963), which requires five conductors, he deployed musicians all over the boxes, balconies and aisles of the hall instead of clustering them solely onstage. Greater complexity and expressiveness are his aim. "It's easier on the nervous system to have the music spaced," he says, "because you don't get it in a compact blast-you get it fragmented from different...
Though it is not suited for offshore cruising, a houseboat built to be just that generally offers more living space for less money than any other craft. (Houseboat sales came to $17.5 million in 1978, an increase of nearly 23% over the year before.) A modest 38-ft. houseboat with sleeping space for six may be bought new for $38,000. Major costs thereafter will be about $1,200 a year for insurance and perhaps $2,700 for marina rental. In northern climes, electricity and heating fuel may add another $1,000 a year. Many marinas provide shower rooms, laundry...