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...Cunningham's choreography: the basic processes of the human body's motion, discerned with a painstaking and endlessly refreshing eye. Like a painter absorbed in something as slight as the fall of light on a glass jar, Cunningham is fascinated by the eloquent detail: a dancer's leg arcing upward like a searchlight against the sky, the drift of weight in space when the body leans slowly backwards, dancers bounding across the stage like stones skipped across water. The patterns aren't only visual, either: in one dance, "Torse," where there was very little sound accompaniment, Cunningham created a whole...
...thinks that the bishops simply misunderstand his method. Like Jesuit Karl Rahner and other contemporary theologians, he starts his Christology "from below," with the man Jesus, and works upward toward his divinity. The council dogmas started "from above," with ideas about God's essence. Church officials, however, are convinced that content, not method, is at stake. Some censure from the German bishops or the Vatican could result...
...estimates that by 1988 fully 90% of his company's cars will contain even more elaborate electronically controlled ignition systems. Though a computer in every car is still a couple of years away, both Ford and GM last year signed separate long-term contracts with Motorola to deliver upward of $160 million in chip systems annually to the two automakers...
...marked shift in public opinion would be necessary to interrupt the upward cycle of jury awards. Lawyers attribute the rising spiral to increased medical costs, a hostility to well-heeled or corporate defendants, greater sensitivity to the plight of disabled victims and an increased willingness of Americans to bring suit. Insurers are pressing for legislation to ease their burden by shortening statutes of limitation, putting a lid on lawyer contingency fees, and setting up Government reinsurance funds. But plaintiffs' lawyers insist that large awards often benefit society. Says Claremont, Calif, Lawyer William Shernoff: "I've seen case after...
Beckett could share Krim's concern about flat share values. Despite its unimpressive performance on the stock exchanges, Transamerica also had an impressive 1977: its revenues increased from $2.7 billion in 1976 to more than $3 billion, while profits rocketed upward by 46%, to $169 million. (United Artists contributed about 15% of both Transamerica's revenues and its earnings...