Word: absentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...louder volume. The result is a nasal blaring sound, like something that would come out of the PA system at a Nixon rally. The upper level is a better place to listen -- if only because the trolleys are better equipped to drown out the melody. But when they are absent, the high-decible Muzak is nearly unbearable...
...million for new development projects in the occupied territories, including Sinai and the Gaza-was never really in doubt. Sapir left before the vote, asking -in an admission of defeat-to have his recorded in the affirmative. In all, 83 members of the 161-member Secretariat were absent; some presumably felt that the result of the vote was assured, but others felt nervous about expressing their opposition...
...folk heroes, mythic celebrity as the ultimate reward of the criminal life) and its images (bloody faces pressed against car wind shields, lovers in a field shaded by a cloud passing briefly across the sun). But Bonnie and Clyde's humor, excitement and sense of fatefulness are woefully absent. Milius, who also wrote the script, creates no real characters, only targets. He has two surpassing leading actors: Warren Gates as Dillinger and Ben Johnson as the G-man who finally does him in. His most singular accomplishment is that he manages to make them both look...
...distance between the President and the press has been more than geographical. "Nine years ago," Fischer recalls, "there was a feeling of intimacy and participation and mutual trust between White House officials and reporters that is absent now. In those days, we all gathered around Press Secretary George Reedy's cluttered desk and jostled for space in his cramped office. Now, we assemble in a large, well-appointed briefing room in the West Wing, where either Ron Ziegler or Gerald Warren - often as much as an hour behind schedule - mounts a platform, stands behind a lectern, makes the daily...
...someone reading this article will live there this fall), and that lasted until 1895 when 1304 Massachusetts Ave. became home for Crimson editors. After the cramped quarters in Stoughton, the three floors on Mass Ave. must have seemed like a palace, and it gave The Crimson a permanency somehow absent in the early days...