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...both serious and popular, no easy feat. That a colleague of such fiercely reductive artists as Brice Marden, Barry Le Va and Richard Serra, formed in the hot arguments and unheated lofts of a pre-yuppie SoHo, would emerge by the mid-'80s as a corporate muralist, decorating the Volvo headquarters in Goteborg, Sweden, and the dining room of the AT&T Building in Manhattan with her fluent, electric and inexorably charming images of landscape and sea--could any development be less predictable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fluent, Electric, Charming | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...situation repeated itself one week later, the police chief said, but when Harvard police put I obel's Volvo under surveillance on the next several Thursday evening, there was no activity...

Author: By Mark. M. Robbins, | Title: Harvard Police Nab ITT Thief | 11/21/1985 | See Source »

...worth of cars, including 3% of Cadillac's production line. Potamkin will not sell competing makes in the same store, but his 29-dealership empire, spanning the East Coast, has a total of ten different brands. In Denver, Leo Payne sells cars built by GM, Ford, Chrysler, AMC, Volkswagen, Volvo, Daimler-Benz, Subaru and Nissan. San Francisco's Martin Swig explains the megadealer's credo: "I don't care where a car comes from as long as it meets the needs of the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pick a Car, Any Car | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...Agreement on Tariffs and Trade last week issued a long-awaited study on ways to help lift trade barriers. The 60-page report was put together by a group of seven public and private officials who included Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Pehr Gyllenhammar, chairman of Volvo. If global commerce were allowed to flow freely, they argue, the world as a whole could regain the vigor that it showed from 1950 to 1973, an era the report describes as "the most dynamic single generation of widespread growth in human history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call for Free Trade | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...place, libertarian militarists--at least in Massachusetts, where the bench I was sitting on is located--are a minority. And therefore, to be effective, libertarian militarists must present a cogent., coherent, obviously persuasive dogma. Liberals in Massachusetts can trust in a wave of popular sentiment among the Commonwealth's Volvo-drivers and Burger King employees to absolve them of forensic shortcomings. Hence the viability of "ConserviTives Suck" as political propaganda...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Life on the Bench | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

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