Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus ended the 40-day flight of Jacobson, 49, celebrated horse trainer and real estate entrepreneur who was convicted on April 12 of murdering John Tupper, a restaurateur and his rival for the favors of Fashion Model Melanie Cain. Jacobson escaped on May 31 by switching places with a visitor posing as his attorney and simply walking out of the Brooklyn House of Detention. Accompanied by his girlfriend, Model Audrey Barrett, 22, Jacobson drove across the country, stopping briefly in Des Moines to pick up identification papers using names from tombstones in a cemetery. The pair bought...
...many ways, Russian art around the time of the Revolution of 1917 was the supreme model of avant-garde activity. It was consciously radical and hopeful. The artists hoped for the collapse of the old and saw themselves as collective makers of the new. Radical politics and radical art, for once, went hand in hand...
...week why it may be able to beat back the Japanese challenge. The company unveiled a 1984 two-seat electric commuter car that has a top speed of 50 m.p.h. and a range of 100 miles between rechargings. The firm also declared that the average mileage of its 1985-model car fleet will be 31 m.p.g., well in excess of the 27.5 m.p.g. ordered by the Government...
...development in Carter's trip to Detroit was the agreement on what Administration officials say could be the model of a national industrial policy. After years of animosity, the American auto industry and the U.S. Government now seem to realize that cooperation is in their best interests. In addition to announcing the relief measures laid out last week, the President said he would appoint a committee of Government, company and union officials to tackle the industry's long-term problems. It will probably consist of Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt, Commerce Secretary Philip Klutznick, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall...
...five church members work in the lobster plant, and another 45 or so will be in town this summer to work on the church's ten boats and run the retreat house, which they plan to use as a "professional education center." So far the Moonies have been model citizens, paying full taxes on their highly successful fishing operations and offering the going rate for lobsters supplied by the locals. Admits one grizzled fish wholesaler: "The Moonies always send me a check quick, and they're courteous, clean-cut kids...