Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what turned Davis into a complete original was his perception of and enthusiasm for the city. Nothing in French art, other than Leger, resembled Davis' syncopated images of urban life. The blaring posterish color- yellows, scarlets, blacks, emerald greens, a high obtrusive fuchsia - and the writhing knots of line, the words blinking like neon signs, the beat and pulsation of the space: this was visual jazz, American-style, and in deed some of Davis' titles, like The Mellow Pad, 1945-51, were couched in the musicians' argot...
Carl Stokes, former mayor of Cleveland and now a newscaster for WNBC-TV, welcoming ex-New York Mayor Abe Beame to the staff as an urban affairs consultant: "I hope the station hasn't become the employer of last resort for ex-mayors...
...movements in the CPI; among them are 8.5 million wage earners, 31 million Social Security recipients, 20 million people who receive food stamps, and 2.5 million retired military and federal employees. But the index has had two serious drawbacks: it is based on the spending patterns of only urban blue-collar and clerical employees, who now constitute less than 45% of the population, and it was compiled by pricing a "market basket" of goods and services compiled back...
...CPls. The first new index, still focused on blue-collar workers and clerical employees, updates their spending habits through surveys of family budgets taken in 1972-73 and rigorously analyzed ever since. The second (CPI-U) reflects the new spending patterns not just of wage earners but of "all urban consumers," including, for example, retired people and self-employed professionals; it is supposed to reflect the way 80% of Americans spend their money...
Holder throws bolts and bolts of gaudy cloth over a production, possibly to hide its flaws. With The Wiz it worked, since the show had a story line that could be playfully transposed to a jazzy urban-ghetto setting. But Kismet was a fable, and fables are too fragile for Holder's broad, jumping, visceral style...