Word: medium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prints impress: Emil Nolde, in particular, unfailingly achieves those surprising effects in the medium which prove a master. His three boat prints capture the slap of water in pitching black and white blocks and swirls; his Danish girl amazes with the sensuality of her red hair, rendered in what is merely a mass of scratches...
...South are more open and honest than in the North. "In the North, we never knew what the real positions of whites were, or who the enemy was. In the South, I know where they stand, and they know where I stand." He also finds that Memphis' medium size "allows for black participation in the city's economic and social development." Blacks have not yet broken into the city's power elite, but Shaw predicts: "The South is going to rise again, and I intend to be part...
That lament by Journalist Henry Grady summed up the glaring lack of industrial development in the South in 1889. For almost a century after the Civil War, the economy of the old Confederacy seemed suspended in a bygone age of mostly small-to medium-size farms, sleepy businesses, graciously slow-paced cities, limited educational and financial opportunities and, for a large segment of the population, hardscrabble poverty. Today, after decades of growth, the South is in the midst of an epic transformation into a diversified modern economy, with a mix of manufacturing and services, industry financed from the North...
Biggest Coup. Among many other things, Wall forged two medium-size steel firms into Sweden's largest privately owned steel and foundry company, built a small licensing operation, Crawford Door, into Europe's leading maker of overhead sliding doors, and acquired Pribo, a major food-processing and leisure-goods conglomerate. His companies greatly expanded trade with Eastern Europe, exporting manufactured goods and importing meat, fish and other raw materials. In 1974 Wall scored one of his biggest coups by swallowing up Scandinavian Trading Co., which has become one of Europe's leading independent oil firms...
...team of trained hypnotists has solved 25 cases and advanced the investigations in 60 more. When terrorists bombed the Nahariya-Haifa bus in 1973, police questioned the driver about suspicious passengers. He could not remember anything until Captain Yshaya Horowitz, head of the hypnosis squad, sent him into a medium-depth trance and asked him to relive his workday. The driver eventually described a suspicious rider with a brown paper parcel under his arm. Working on this lead, Israeli cops quickly collared the Arab bombers, who confessed to the bombing...