Word: spin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Asian religious festival, or at the eyes of a peasant planting rice in a lagoon shows the futility of explaining Asian society with Western ideas. What does "medical care" mean to people who believe in reincarnation and bodily deprivation? What does "industry" mean to people who still spin thread by hand? Western observers nevertheless continue to foist their models on Asian society. More tragically, they attempt to make the society conform to their models...
...work. Whenever an image or process appears in Nauman's show that looks vaguely interesting, one may be sure it was worked out years before by either Johns or Duchamp. So with Nauman's casts and templates of parts of his body, which are merely spin-offs and rip-offs from Johns in the late '50s and, more distantly, from Duchamp's own interest in molding. That some of these Naumans are made of neon tubing does not alter this, any more than the fact that some of his word-pieces (e.g., a sign that lights...
...Hindu imports spin on and on in the catalogue of current U.S. spiritual movements. So, too, do the offshoots of Buddhism, which began in India as a reform movement within Hinduism in the 6th century B.C. Gautama Buddha, the Enlightened One who founded the Buddhist family of religions, de-emphasized the Hindu gods; some schools of Buddhism-Zen, for instance-still reflect a kind of agnosticism. But the basic spiritual focus in the many forms of Buddhism is the attainment of nirvana, an ineffable state of liberation and union with ultimate reality in which suffering is eliminated, and compassion...
...roll back prices, interest and rents, home builders have staged a march on Washington to protest soaring lumber prices, the Government has won a dubious victory in a battle with bankers over the price of loan money, and labor leaders have begun presenting demands that could give a new spin to the wage-price spiral. It hardly seems likely that President Nixon's imposition of price ceilings on beef, pork and lamb last week-which already is being called by Democrats too little and too late-will make these multiple hassles die down...
...such a clause, workers' pay is automatically increased to reflect the full rise in consumer prices that occurs during the life of the contract. In quiet times, such a clause can be relatively inexpensive-but during a period of swift inflation it can make the wage-price spiral spin all the faster. The U.E. and International Union of Electrical Workers won only a limited escalator after striking G.E. for 14 weeks in 1969-70, and have collected 24? an hour in cost-of-living adjustments since then; had there been no limit, the rise would have been...