Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while a technician frantically made repairs. Finally, Horowitz completed the piece and responded to the thunderous ovation with four encores. Said the famed firm's president, Henry Z. Steinway: "Each time this happens I want to crawl into the woodwork." Soothed Horowitz: "It's like a flat tire-it can happen any time." The odds: once in every 5,000 performances...
Aggressive Medium. For nearly a decade, or since Robert Rauschenberg hung a tire on a stuffed goat and Andy Warhol began painting the soup can, artists have labored to create simple, obvious public art. They used colors that screamed; painting was likely to have hard-edged forms; sculpture was geometric, intended as focal points in plazas. Today the trend is in the opposite direction: artists are deliberately going underground. Even though they may use people as part of their sculptures-as does Byars-their purposes remain arcane and enigmatic...
...with no strings attached. Yet Fiat will actually have much more leverage than that, since it will have a large share of a holding company that will control its new partner, Citroën. Most of the holding company's stock will come from France's tire-making Michelin family, which now owns over half of Citroën and which opened the original merger talks with Agnelli, an old friend of the family...
...Gaulle's ruling on the deal was a somewhat ambiguous "No, but yes." No, Fiat could not buy the Citroen shares from the tire-making Michelin family. But yes, Fiat and Citroen could cooperate, so long as their mutual dealings did not affect "conditions of employment" and the "equilibrium of the auto market in France," That means that little, if anything, can be salvaged from the original deal, The two companies had intended to share manufacturing plants and probably to channel more Citroën work to Italy's lower-wage labor market, They also had planned...
Piling Up Trouble. Citroën has long been heading toward a classic industrial disaster. Founded by a flamboyant Parisian named Andre Citroën in 1919, the company has been controlled for the past 30 years by the Michelins, who generally consider autos an adjunct to their profitable tire business. Citroën's two basic models, the tinny, 20-year-old 2 CV and the 13-year-old, bullet-nose DS, were highly successful in the 1950s and early 1960s, when automanic Frenchmen would wait months for a car. That situation no longer exists, but Pierre Bercot...