Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, only two were not on the take. Despite the fact that Droge won eight citations, he casually accepted payoffs in cash or weapons. Gamblers would throw a roll of bills through a window into the back seat of his radio car, though once their aim was too good: the bills went sailing right out the other window. Droge was finally tripped up when he accepted $300 to let off a man whom he had arrested on a narcotics charge. The man was wired by the Knapp Commission. Before the hearings end this week, the commission...
...through extravagance. The most dramatic example (see cover) is Jesus rising from the stage floor on a hidden elevator; a $20,000 robe cascades in gleaming folds beneath him, after covering layers have been stripped off, suggesting the radiant emergence of a butterfly from a chrysalis. O'Horgan's aim is mainly to shock the sensibilities; often, alas, that is all he manages...
...studying the problem, the Committee on Athletic Sports accepted as one of its premises that "no reduction in the number of football seats available for sale to alumni would be acceptable." The primary aim of the $3 charge, the committee's report noted, is to "minimize 'non-serious' student takers." In concluding, the committee's report called the fee "an inescapable charge for freedom, fairness and merger...
...That policy will aim at two goals: breaking permanently the wage-price spiral, and stimulating business enough to bring the jobless rate down from 6.1% toward 4%, which most economists define as practical "full employment." By itself, the freeze will come nowhere near achieving either objective. If it is succeeded by a weak, waffling Phase II, warns Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, the nation will be "no better off on the inflation front than if nothing had been done-perhaps worse off because of disappointed expectations...
...American magazines-cover blondes from pulp thrillers, bombers and Jell-O from LIFE. Fifteen years ahead of time he predicted the grotesque iconography of lushness, repetition and violence that American artists would eventually discover in their own culture. In 1952 he helped form the Independent group in London whose aim was to present mass culture as a source of art. In postwar Europe, this material seemed to come from a transatlantic dreamworld. "For the French intellectual," Paolozzi observed, "a Coca-Cola bottle was a phenomenon. In America it is merely a way of life." One of his collages, from...