Word: went
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manner, as studying the classical ruins of Rome. Painters flocked to Venice from north of the Alps as well as from other centers in Italy, and this gave an eclectic tone to Venetian art. With no dominant brush to impose its presence, as Titian's had, almost anything went -remnants of international mannerism. Venetian color, quotations from Roman or Flemish Baroque, borrowings from the new realism of Caravaggio and his great Spanish follower, Ribera. The city was visited by geniuses, like the young Rubens; but its art colony consisted mainly of third-rate painters turning out ragged marsh peasants...
...Modena (pop. 180,000), an industrial city noted for its hardworking, stubborn citizenry, its good food and its dedication to opera, that Pavarotti was born nearly 44 years ago. He remembers himself as a lively, gossipy scamp, always in trouble. At school his energies went into sports; soccer became a passion. At home he chimed in with the likes of Gigli, Tito Scinpa, Bjoerling and Di Stefano on the records collected by his father, a baker and gifted amateur tenor. He recalls: "In my teens I used to go to Mario Lanza movies and then come home and imitate...
...postpone putting into effect new provisions on multiemployer pension funds for fear that companies or unions would dump their programs and leave the Government to pick up the pieces. The largest net claim for a bankrupt firm to date was $35 million. In the unlikely event that Chrysler went into total bankruptcy and reneged on its pensions, the federal agency would have to put up perhaps $780 million. The Pension Corporation, whose assets total around $250 million, would be forced to ask Congress for additional funds to cover Chrysler's 124,000 workers...
...buttress the pitch for Government aid, the report features a somewhat lurid accounting of what would happen if the company went bankrupt. The total cost to the nation, Chrysler says, would be $16 billion. Some 400,000 workers could not only lose their jobs, but they could also remain unemployed long enough to require unemployment benefits totaling $1.5 billion. As many as 35,000 workers, most of whom are black, could be laid off in Detroit alone. Yet these estimates seem exaggerated, because it is highly unlikely that the company would ever shut down totally. At worst some plants would...
...York-to-Nantucket flight must be diverted to Boston. Columnist Baker recalls one too typical experience. Before buying his ticket in New York City, he asked if there would be a problem with fog at Nantucket. As Baker tells it, "The clerk said no, Nantucket was fine, so I went. Of course, it was so fogged in that the pilot couldn't even find the island. We wound up in Boston, where I had to spend the night at a hotel. It seems that the airline just wasn't going to give up those fares...