Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...August to $1.1 billion, the worst red-ink figure for any one month ever. According to Commerce Secretary Frederick Dent, the nation imported 10% less oil in August than it did a year earlier-but paid $1.7 billion more for what it did import. Higher prices for foreign steel and paper also added significantly to the import bill, underscoring the point that American consumers are being hurt by overseas inflation as well as by the domestic variety...
...celebrating the 25th anniversary of Mao's victory, a New China News Agency dispatch summed up the first quarter-century's achievement by reminding Peking's citizens that "this city, where even thumbtacks had to be imported before, is now producing ten times as much steel as the whole country...
Narrow Imperatives. Smith, naturally, felt otherwise, and nothing in his work or writings Indicates that the sculptures he started to paint but left unfinished at his death would have been closer to his intentions if cut back to raw steel. If he had wanted them raw, he would not have begun to paint them. Indeed, the vitality and open-endedness of his work largely stemmed from his refusal to entertain the kind of narrow imperatives about painting as painting and sculpture as sculpture that Greenberg, in the days when he was writing criticism, proposed...
...counterpoint between steel and paint did not always come off, but Smith's effort to make it work was an integral part of American art history. Greenberg's decision to posthumously destroy the evidence of what he considered Smith's "failure" was, one must in charity assume, directed by sincere aesthetic motives - just as John Ruskin's posthumous burning of "pornographic" watercolors by J.M.W. Turner in the 19th century was sincerely meant to protect Turner's moral reputation...
...Upper Egypt and the town of Paris in the nation's western desert, he can bring the cost down to $500 per unit, including a kitchen and a latrine. He designs housing so that peasants can build it much as their fathers did in the past. No structural steel, concrete or wood is needed, just mud bricks and the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia. As a result, he says, he has "a billion clients" -the world's poor...