Word: threads
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Ariane (the French name for the Cretan princess of Greek mythology whose thread helped Theseus escape from the Labyrinth) took nearly a decade to develop. It is not only a triumph of European technology, but a stellar example of something much more rare: real international cooperation. The big rocket's first and third stages were built in France, the second in West Germany. Britain developed much of the computer software. Contributions came from Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands and, in fact, all of the founding partners in this billion-dollar collaboration. Ariane's first commercial flight is scheduled...
...best of the Germans is probably A.R. Penck (born Ralf Winkler), who was on show at the Sonnabend Gallery. An East German emigre to the West, he does mock-archaeological images blown up to "American" size. On a flat ground, flat pictographs: Ariadne holding her thread, Theseus as a stick figure with spear, a Minotaur. This primitivism is meant to suggest a heroic Aegean prehistory, a lost age when sibyls muttered in every cleft, and any scratch or spiral meant something. But Penck's images are mere quotation suffused with graphic charm; they are little more than the husks...
...wealthy. So far, bamboozelement--the extraordinary ability of our president to get millions of Americans to send telegrams, for instance--has enticed the mass to fight against its own interests. Now they must turn to face Reagan and the battle must be joined. Stockman's candor, like one loose thread in a beautiful sweater, provides the perfect opportunity for unraveling the deceit and sophistry that have characterized the administration's program...
...fact, the viability of enforcing bilateral nuclear disarmament is not addressed. The thread of the argument and its conclusion suggest that even unilateral nuclear disarmament would be a preferable alternative to, say, Libyan primacy in the Middle East or Soviet primacy in Western Europe...
...still a common thread runs through Sowell's narrative. His ideas find great popularity among the intellectual elite that currently makes economic and other policy decisions for our nation. President Reagen offered Sowell a cabinet post for more than the reason of his being Black, but for his conservative, Chicago school, credentials as well. As high standards of honesty and objectivity Sowell claims for himself, his message is tuned appreciably to readers of Public Interest. They all understand one thing: welfare assistance to the poor, affirmative action, federal educational assistance, and, most significantly, forced school desegregation, don't belong...