Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe it has been customary for the art critics of each country to boost native artists. U.S. critics have long declined to do the same, but now they are changing. Sign of the trend: George Braziller Inc. last week published six monographs on U.S. artists, to sell at $3.95 in hard cover and $1.50 in Pocket Book. The low prices were achieved by gambling on large sales and by ordering big first printings-10,000 hard cover, 50,000 paperbacks. The editions are identical inside, carry more than 80 plates each, with 16 in color (drawn partly from the files...
Basically, the million-dollar collection was a broadening of the small-car trend. Leading the way were the U.S. compact cars which attracted so much interest that European car makers began to wonder about how much competition they would be. Show goers were fascinated by their comfort and big-car features. Said one prospective buyer: "They're simply bargain-priced luxury cars...
...nations did not produce 46 styles. In the brave new world of widely circulated reproductions, painters and sculptors are busier keeping abreast of trends than developing distinctive characteristics of their own. Overwhelmingly, the trend was abstract expressionist, in both painting and sculpture. Confronted by much that was grandiose, more that was trivial, the jury of 17 experts, predominantly directors of their own national museums, had to give up the search for jewels, settle on their choice among the semiprecious offerings available...
...More and more Americans want a big car for big driving jobs, a small runabout for short hops. Thus, having long since realized the dream of a car for almost every family, the U.S. now is sweeping toward two cars in every garage. The compacts are speeding up the trend, since two Corvairs can be bought for the price of the biggest dressed-up Chevy...
...thing about the Corvair is the way Cole designed it and sold the idea to General Motors. He put the Corvair wheels in motion way back in 1952, a most unlikely time. Detroit then was riding a crest of chrome, and it looked as if anyone who bucked the trend to bigness would get honked right out of the industry. Henry Kaiser's chromeless little Henry J. was a flop. Romney's Ramblers were losing money. Just a few years before, Chevy had started to tool for a compact model, the Cadet, then decided that the market...