Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to General Dynamics, the rash of changes was ordered because the Navy was just in too much of a hurry. Ordinarily, a contracting firm builds a "lead" ship before it gets awards to construct a new class of vessels. That way, the shipyard can work out design and engineering bugs and get a fairly accurate idea of cost before moving into mass production. But to save time on the production of nuclear subs, the Navy insisted on signing contracts with incomplete designs and specifications, and left details to be settled later...
...subject was much broader. It took in "wood-and ironwork of the past; Civil War and skyscraper architecture; the brilliant colors on gasoline stations, chain store fronts and taxicabs," as well as "Earl Hines' hot piano and Negro jazz music in general." His desire, he wrote, "is to construct formal souvenirs which are an agreeable emblem" of the "speeds and spaces of the American environment." In its voracious inclusiveness (admitting, as subject, anything American from landscape to 5 and 10? store kitchen utensils), Davis' imagination cast long shadows-toward abstract expressionism on one hand, toward...
...exhausting film to watch, you want to watch it over and over after it's finished. "Kane" is the object lesson in American movies--in itself, in legend, in its tradition. It's not the starting point, but the center around which everything else moves. It's a construct, not a natural--a device, not entertainment, and it's never been a great popular success. Too self-serious to project a world of beauty into which one would want to project oneself, "Kane" is too dark and heaving a work to have dignity; "Kane's" immaturity makes it condemnatory...
...official to TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff: "Does anyone doubt that in a future war the Saudis would come under Arab pressure to use these planes against Israel?" As it is, the Saudis along with Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, plan to spend $10 billion to construct a new military-manufacturing city of 80,000 to 100,000 people 35 miles southeast of Riyadh, the Saudi capital. Its purpose: to build air-to-air and air-to-surface missile systems...
...death will be more terrible by the same degree. Of course the writer in me will die right away, since such a figure has no base, no substance, is less than dust. He is only barely possible in the broil of earthly life, is only a construct of sensuality. That is your writer for you. But I myself cannot go on living because I have not lived, I have remained clay, I have not blown the spark into fire, but only used it to light up my corpse.' It will be a strange burial: the writer, insubstantial...