Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of a rather complicated deal, the U.S. Government also has a special interest in MEA. Several years ago, most of MEA's shares were owned by Beirut's Intra Bank, which also owed a big debt to the U.S.'s Commodity Credit Corp. for some grain shipments to Lebanon. When Intra folded in 1966, an investment company was formed to take over its remaining assets, including 65% of MEA's shares. For its unpaid bill, C.C.C. received a 19% interest in the investment company that controls the airline, and an officer of C.C.C. sits...
...Chicago has extended it for another month. The engravings represent what may well be the most exhaustive study of genitals, mainly female, ever seen in legitimate art galleries. Says his longtime dealer and friend, Daniel-Henry Kahn-weiler: "His work has always been profoundly autobiographical. Women play a big role in his life and imagination. The subject of this show is himself, his imagination, his dreams." As the artist once said, "for me, there are two kinds of women-goddesses and doormats." Both are clearly visible...
Things have changed up the river. Lenny Bruce was fond of casting the typical oldtime prison flick with little-known B players: "Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, George E. Stone, Frankie Darro, Warren Hymer, Nat Pendleton, and the Woman Across the Bay, Ann Dvorak." But now, judging from Riot, the big house has gone mod, and there is no need for such durable old stereotypes. Riot concocts a fresh new batch...
...sons have had as big a shadow to live in as John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower. Few sons have seemed so willing to live in that shadow. At 46, young Eisenhower's physical resemblance to his father is, at certain angles, uncanny, and his first book suggests that the son may be almost as much think-alike as lookalike...
None of it matters until the end of the book, when the lovers, having established their own household, contrive to act out all their negative impulses in one big destructive act: the drowning, through negligence, of their child. The novel, which is self-indulgent in the extreme, would not matter either except for the precision of Mosley's prose, the aphorisms with which he decorates it and the nagging feeling he gives the reader that perhaps he has, almost despite himself, hit on an authentic form of meaninglessness. Cut off from roots and skeptical of society, his characters believe...