Word: traveller
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...advertisers. PepsiCo, which had a virtual monopoly on Soviet cola sales until 1984, faces competition from Coca-Cola, now sold in eleven Soviet cities. Visa cards will be issued to Soviet citizens who travel abroad later this year. Sony's products are available only in stores that require payment in hard currency...
Five years after undertaking the project, Hamilton is sadder and presumably wiser, although not necessarily richer. Random House footed the legal bills, but of his $100,000 advance, the biographer used up half for research and travel expenses. And there was the cost of ambivalence: "I proceeded with as much tact and decency as one could," says Hamilton. "Nonetheless there he is, wanting to be left alone, and he isn't being left alone, and this is partly because of me." If he had known the outcome, would Hamilton have written about Salinger? "No," he says emphatically. How does...
Unlikely to be found in any other part of the course catalogue, seminar titles over the years have included the fantastic "Travel Through Time," the esoteric "Western European Musical Instruments, 1350-1700," and the strictly practical "How to Read a Research Paper in Animal Behavior...
...fact airlines keep stressing is that air travel is growing safer. Fatalities in U.S. commercial-airline accidents declined from 2,669 in the years 1970-78 to 2,000 in 1979-87, even though total flight hours increased by one-third during that time. Moreover, the majority of accidents are attributed to pilot and controller errors and to bad weather. Mechanical faults have been blamed as a factor in only about one-third of such mishaps...
...praising and unpuzzling Winogrand's headlong pictures. For the final section of this 190- print summation of Winogrand's career, Szarkowski even had developed more than 2,500 rolls of film that the Bronx-born photographer left behind at his death. After closing on Aug. 16, the show will travel to Chicago, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Austin and Tucson, spreading Szarkowski's view that Winogrand is the "central photographer of his generation...