Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans are only now beginning to see: How can you make a culture of congestion work, and turn constriction to advantage? The main cultural myth of America centers on infinite space, limitless resources, and the energies they foster. Without these, such diverse cultural emblems as Moby Dick, '50s tail fins, westerns and the paintings of Jackson Pollock would not exist. Neither would those words in the Declaration of Independence, so bizarre to the Japanese, about pursuing happiness. When they find their space is finite, their resources limited and their social energy grossly deformed by the friction of overcrowding, Americans...
...temperature soars, the New York City art world winds down. Early summer is the time for group shows, mixed hangings, tail ends of the year. Yet now and again, it contains some interesting items; even a few revelations. Two such shows, having nothing but dates in common, can be picked from Manhattan's dwindling bill of fare. One is a downtown exhibition of works on paper by the Kansas-born artist Alan Shields, 39; the other, at the Marlborough Gallery on 57th Street, is the promising second New York show of a painter from the Southwest, John Alexander...
...saber-toothed tiger is long gone, but the modern jungle is no less perilous. The sense of panic over a deadline, a tight plane connection, a reckless driver on one's tail are the new beasts that can set the heart racing, the teeth on edge, the sweat streaming. These responses may have served our ancestors well; that extra burst of adrenaline got their muscles primed, their attention focused and their nerves ready for a sudden "fight or flight." But try doing either one in today's traffic jams or boardrooms. "The fight-or-flight emergency response...
Even sharp-eyed amateurs with small telescopes or binoculars could make out the comet's bright central mass, or nucleus, and its long gaseous tail. Astronomers concluded that I-A-A was probably not a "virginal" comet, meaning one that has never before swept around the sun. Its lack of brilliance suggested that the sun had boiled off some of its icy material on earlier journeys, hundreds or even thousands of years...
Reich begins the book with a detailed description of the evolution of business management in the U.S. His general point is that while America's industrial development has been spectacular in the last hundred years at the tail end of the first American frontier, we better change our act because we have come to another one. U.S. development, he argues, was spearheaded by adventurous entrepreneurs who put all their eggs in high-volume, standardized production with little help from the government and little concern for workers. These plants, headed by professional managers, contributed to a prosperity "unparalleled in history...