Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Vautier's in France in the '60s, for instance -- look semidetached. Holzer's trouble is that although she wants to use language alone as the stuff of visual art -- a dubious enterprise anyway -- she has no language. She just rambles, and her linguistic poverty strikes people as "radical," as though it were the result of some exacting distillation. But it is thin and complacent, tarted up with costly materials for the audience of consumers whose pretensions it affects to despise. Its bathos (LACK OF CHARISMA CAN BE FATAL) might have issued from the warm heart of some Midwestern creative- writing...
Yesterday's high tech, though, is today's low tech. The Selectric lost much of its luster in recent years when secretaries switched to word processors and personal computers. As a result, IBM is putting its typewriter business on the auction block. The most prominently mentioned buyer: Clayton & Dubilier, an investment firm. Says Kenneth Camarro, an office-automation consultant: "IBM has read the writing on the wall." And the writing didn't come from a Selectric...
...Though the four World War II victors -- the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain and France -- must still formally sign off on unification this fall, the Zheleznovodsk agreement caps nine months of dizzying change in Europe and signals the beginning of a fresh era. As Gorbachev put it, "We are leaving one epoch in international relations and entering another." Added Kohl: "The future has begun...
...Though the ground for last week's pact had been prepared in six meetings between foreign ministers Eduard Shevardnadze and Hans-Dietrich Genscher over the past two months, Kohl had no reason to expect Gorbachev would agree so quickly. The Soviet leader clearly wanted to settle the issue of German unification so he could move on to his country's domestic problems. But the atmosphere surely helped. By the time they made their announcement, the two men were laughing together. Observes a Western diplomat in Moscow: "It may come as a surprise, but Kohl and Gorbachev kind of like each...
...fated afternoon, Grimm--as though to spite his name--dresses up as a clown, walks into a midtown bank, and takes everyone inside hostage. Of course, police snipers and SWAT teams, commanded by Chief Rotzinger (Jason Robards) surround the building within minutes. But Grimm has an ingenious escape plan--this is the cleverest part of the movie, so I won't give it away--and soon he and his pair of accomplices are on their way their way to JFK, Fiji and freedom. Or so they think...