Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening-night audience enjoyed the show, and why not? Plummer was dynamite, and there was lkots of sex and violence. But what of Othello? What of the raw titan who embraces ciovilization and true love only to re-discover the chaos, the jungle beneath, the pity and sadnss of human inconstancy,of vows broken because they never existed, of grief as boundless as the universe? Well.... there's enough of that in real life...
...Beneath the entertaining detective-chase motif, however, lurks the shadow of the seemier aspects of art acquisition. Even Hoving cannot help but allude to that most popular of methods of removing a piece from the bosom of its native country--smuggling. Harry Sperling, "The world's leading expert in arranging that almost any work of art you've seen, any place in the world, suddenly turns up safe and sound in Switzerland, eminently exportable to the United States," explains his technique to Hoving, a quick study...
...equally thriving market in Dara Adam Khail, a mud-splattered tribal settlement in Pakistan's North-West Frontier. Visiting in the early days of January 1980, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, DeVoss asked the most venerable gunsmith in Dara for a "beginner's weapon." From beneath a pile of Sten guns, the man unearthed what DeVoss thought was a ballpoint pen. But the pen could accommodate a .25-cal. slug that would kill at close range...
...shaking hands. Nixon was meticulously polite to her. But he seemed defensive as he walked up and down the aisle. Eyes carefully shrouded, looking right and left. Ready to reach for a hand to shake, but only if it was proffered. He would not force himself on others. Yet beneath the reserve he was clearly jubilant. He was back where it counted, at the center of things...
...division and rancor that broke into the open at Blackpool were a harsh departure from traditional Tory civility. When Thatcher's Home Secretary, William Whitelaw, put forth a relatively mild motion on law-and-order, it was hooted down. Observed Political Commentator Peter Jenkins in the Guardian: "Beneath the incantations of the simple Thatcherite faith is a nasty tone of class grievance and sullen nationalism...