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...Rauschenberg did. Through the '50s and early '60s he designed sets and costumes for Cunningham's dance troupe. To a remarkable degree, Rauschenberg eventually made himself the conduit through which some of the big money made in the '60s by new art, including his own, was siphoned to the "profitless" avantgarde, that of dance and music. In doing so, he felt he was only paying his dues, for when Rauschenberg moved to New York in the fall of 1949 he joined the group of dancers and musicians gathered around Cage, Cunningham and Morton Feldman; they, more than the New York...
...surplus value" that the capitalist unjustifiably tacked on to the real worth of the product. In the early part of the century, Bernard Shaw and his fellow Fabians contended that profits should be taxed into oblivion in order to create a new, socialist order. They believed that the profitless economy would function more effectively-and they were wrong. Since the onset of the Industrial Age 100 years ago, profits have proved to be indispensable to a prosperous economy...
...know about sex, psychosurgery, biofeedback, insomnia, ultradian rhythms-indeed the whole galaxy of behavioral phenomena, from alienation to Zen. The magazine's success is due largely to its editor in chief and resident visionary since 1969, T (for nothing) George Harris. He turned a jargon-pocked and profitless publication into a Popular Mechanics of human behavior-eminently readable, visually stimulating and worth more than $2 million a year in net profit for its present owner, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., which bought the magazine...
...Market analysts had expected companies to raise $5.5 billion by selling new bond issues in April; now they think that the total may be as low as $3.2 billion. Underwriters, who buy newly issued bonds from companies and resell them to the public, have had to unload some at profitless prices. Complains J. Perry Ruddick, senior vice president of Manhattan's Smith Barney & Co.: "All of a sudden, every time you bought, you were wrong...
Russell Parker and his children live above their profitless one-throne barber shop. A worn-out, ex-vaudeville dancer, he passes the days playing checkers -- his ceremony with his old friend, Mr. Jenkins; Russell could never cut hair as well as he could dance. His daughter Adele supports the family by working at the dead-end Motor Vehicles job. Disgusted by the hard work that brought only physical and emotional exhaustion to the rest of the family, Russell's two sons decide to make their way in the world by converting the shop into a bootlegging joint. Pop goes along...