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...earlier word was "quality," whose utterance was meant to mark off a given artwork from the swarm of others and confirm the precision of a collector's taste. Interesting has the opposite effect. It suspends judgment, covers the rear, and defends the vacuum-cleaner habits of a cultural mass market without precedent in art history. It states, with a sort of coy defiance, that buying this, uh, thang may not be a mistake, even though its owner does not know what to say about it. It acknowledges that by the time thoughtful aesthetic judgment is passed -- a distant prospect, given...
...often accused, advocating divestment that would occur in a vacuum. Harvard's divestment would be a drop in the bucket, but no one could disagree that once you have a whole lot of drops in the bucket, it tips over. Harvard can't shirk its responsibility to play a part along with individual church groups, cities, and universities that are moving toward divestment," says Ball...
...hastily added to a 13-day pilgrimage to East European capitals, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra repeatedly asserted that Nicaragua was not about to bend under the U.S. embargo. In Spain, France, Italy, Finland and Sweden, he pitched strongly to his hosts for help in filling the sizable trade vacuum ($168 million in 1984) left by U.S. sanctions...
...Meredith did a show at the same theater last year, this is the first time on the boards for Gifford. No matter: his football experience comes in handy. As the built-for-comfort Meredith scatters ashes across the stage, the built-for-speed Gifford does end runs with a vacuum cleaner. Meredith calls it typecasting: "There's a lot more of Felix in Gifford than there is in me. He hurts easily." Anyway, says Meredith, "he's so cute in his little apron...
...drag on earnings when it is bad because the employees' average pay would fall along with revenues. Workers might be willing to take a pay cut in exchange for job security. "Firms ever hungry for labor," writes the economist, would be "always on the prowl --cruising around like vacuum cleaners on wheels, searching in nooks and crannies for extra workers...