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...type of pen wielded by a forger can be a giveaway. The quaint quill was used exclusively until 1780, when its successor, the steel pen, came into existence. The difference in writing between the two can be seen under a microscope. Fiber-tipped pens were not used extensively in the U.S. until 1964. Any forger using a pen not common in the period his document purports to derive from risks quick discovery. The modern proliferation of pens, particularly ballpoints, complicates the task of current document analysts, but can provide fresh clues. A ballpoint requires the writer to exert more pressure...
...Dance" performance series, and the popular series of video screenings, the ICA this year has offered several exhibitions of purely visual, stationary works of art as well, including an exhibition of pastels by Lucas Samaras, and the recent showing of Christopher Wilmarth's "Breath," a collection of blown glass, steel sculpture and works on paper, created in response to seven poems by Stephane Mallarme. The upcoming "Boston Now" show will feature painting, photography and sculpture, as well as works in the newer media...
Struggling to avoid an all-out trade war, governments of the industrial countries recently negotiated numerous "voluntary" agreements to limit commerce. The European Community, for example, promised the U.S. to hold steel exports to an average of only 5.4% of the American market. Europe won assurances from the Japanese that they would restrain exports of autos, light trucks, quartz watches, hi-fi equipment, computer-controlled machine tools and television tubes. Japan also agreed to put a 1.68 million ceiling on its auto shipments to the U.S. for the third straight year. The Geneva-based trade organization GATT (General Agreement...
...based Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the lone survivor of 143 companies that once made motorcycles in the U.S. The Administration will soon face a new test of its free-trade philosophy. Last week the International Trade Commission unanimously recommended that the U.S. set quotas limiting the import of some steel products for three years...
...films, Flashdance has made it big by taking experiences of black youths and playing them in whiteface. The Flashdancers' moves can be seen any week on Soul Train, or on any inner-city street corner. But unlike its grittily romantic predecessors, Flashdance is pure glitz. This "Pittsburgh" has steel mills that shimmer in telephoto twilight. The sidewalks are clean as the Lido beach-must be where all the ironworkers got those golden tans. In a neighborhood bar, Alex (Jennifer Beals) and her chums put on a sexy, high-tech floor show that could exist only in Wayne Newton...