Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present levels, the welfare apparatus has simply become too expensive for most governments-and their taxpayers. Across the Continent, social security systems are grappling with fiscal crisis, in part because ponderous, costly bureaucracies have mushroomed to administer a vast array of programs that sometimes neglect the essential to serve up what is merely desirable. In Britain and France, rent subsidies have done little to alleviate chronic housing shortages and overcrowding. In The Netherlands, disability plans have been abused by unemployed workers making false claims to receive higher benefits. Generous sick-leave payments in Sweden are blamed for a debilitating rise...
...inward to a profusion of veiled detail that demanded the most strenuous attention. In an environment she showed at the Museum of Modern Art in 1959, Dawn's Wedding Feast (reassembled in her 1980 show at the Whitney), Nevelson turned this effect inside out by painting the whole array white, not black. The chalky surface now produced an effect of mummification, not atmospheric distance; the calcined forms, visually explicit, retreated from the eye in a startling way. She also made a number of gold-painted sculptures that were, on the whole, less successful. The same eloquence of arrangement...
...candy-toffees, bull's-eyes, peppermints, fruit gums. "It looked like heaven," she recalls. "It was very magical." There is an obvious and durable link between that epiphany in the candy store and the regulating image of Nevelson's mature work: the serried boxes, each holding its array of repeated forms, offered for inspection in a shallow space...
...protons and such could tumble around and produce enough current to run every Osterizer across America until all the world's avocados had been turned into guacamole thrice over, all the clothes washed and dried faster than they could be soiled, all the cheese grilled in an endless array of toaster ovens...
...Muller outlines a program of cooperation between these economic actors that would eradicate the misallocation of resources, stemming from interest group haggling. His idea is intriguing, if utopian, but it still fails to address the issue of those who are represented neither by corporation, bureaucracy or union. Muller's array of strategic planning and targeting might possibly succeed in reversing declining productivity rates and other inflationary trends. But measures based on the corporate sector, as most of his are, will not affect the prosperity of those worst off and most likely to revolt against a system that allows their poverty...