Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friendly ambience of bush-league ball. In many of the cozy parks, which often seat no more than 5,000, customers can sit in the top row of the grandstand and still catch snippets of conversations among ballplayers in the batting cage below. Trotting down to the bullpen wall for an autograph is easy. And to the delight of baseball purists, Astroturf has not made it to many minor-league parks...
When Polaroid announced two weeks ago that it was reducing its work force by as much as 8% and putting more stock in the hands of the remaining employees, Wall Street realized immediately what the company was up to: trying to boost the price of its shares and protect itself against takeovers. Little did the markets know, however, that Polaroid was already being stalked by a raider. For weeks, Shamrock Holdings, the investment company owned by Roy Disney, Walt's nephew, had been secretly accumulating Polaroid stock. At the same time, Shamrock sent letters to Polaroid's management proposing...
...explicit and the poetic. The green surface of The Billiard Table, 1945, folding in the middle, seems to be foundering in the aqueous gray and olive planes of the room like a sinking ship. Perhaps there is a ghost of a clue in the barely visible lettering on the wall, part of a cafe sign reminding patrons of the law against public drunkenness. But between the elements of the painting there is a continuous jostling, circling and reflection, a sense of the vitality of form in every particular, that puts metaphoric reflection and wordplay back in second place...
That slogan presumably can't be featured a second time, though. In fact, Atlanta hasn't actually settled on a slogan for its next stage. In a Wall Street Journal piece last winter, John Helyar suggested that in the spirit of New York as the Big Apple and New Orleans as the Big Easy, Atlanta might be known as the Big Hustle, but the suggestion was not received warmly. The Chamber is temporarily using the slogan of the Convention and Visitors Bureau: "Look at Atlanta Now." It emphasizes the contemporary partly because a remarkable number of visitors, presumably oblivious...
...Schwartzbergs' comments suggest, Israelis make special claims on travelers' loyalties. American Jews who cancel trips can find themselves the object of sharp criticism. "American Jews have a responsibility to disregard the reports and come here," says Harry Wall, director of the Anti-Defamation League office in Israel. "Anyone who stays away is succumbing to Arab pressure...