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...what it used to be, but what is it doing in a museum? Why does such aesthetic entropy pervade the biggest sales boom for "hot" new painting in American history...
...current boom in neon brings its history full circle. Although the process of passing an electric charge through a gas such as neon or argon inside a sealed glass tube had been known for some time, it became commercially viable in 1910, when a French inventor named Georges Claude developed a long-life electrode. One early practical application: a giant white Cinzano sign over the chimneys of Paris. After being introduced into the U.S. in 1923, neon flourished for nearly two decades, especially as an accent for fantasies: movie houses, cocktail lounges, casinos. In the 1950s, when television took visual...
...post-war depression of our grade school years was followed by a roaring boom which lasted until our junior year in high school. About that time, the first feeble attempts at air conditioning--with blocks of ice and fans circulating air--came along. As a Northerner, I often wondered how people in Houston and New Orleans and Mobile survived the summer; even New York could be frightful and Washington was worse. In the fall of 1929 everything collapsed and the United States and the world plunged into economic disaster...
American Motors has not shared in the recent boom times of the auto industry. While Ford, General Motors and Chrysler in the first quarter amassed large profits, AMC lost $29 million. The last thing AMC needs is what could be the world's most expensive carmaking plant, but that is just what it shoulders in Kenosha, Wis., where it makes Alliance and Encore cars. Assemblers among the factory's 5,800 workers earn an average of $13.44 an hour, vs. $13.07 in a comparable GM facility. Last week AMC's management, which wants concessions from the United Auto Workers...
...show turns darker and funkier, with a lot of smoke bombs and jungle-queen strutting in silhouette, toward something like a 14-year-old's florid conception of adult sexuality. Madonna comes onstage with a big portable stereo boom box and goes into a routine that sounds like the dirty jokes that eighth-graders giggle over. "Every lady has a box," she says. "My box is special. Because it makes music. But it has to be turned on." Adults wince, but the youngsters love it. "I like the way she handles herself, sort of take it or leave it," says...