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BETTER U.S. RELATIONS. The Russians still suffer from a deep-seated ambivalence toward the U.S. They do not mind seeing the U.S. bled in Viet Nam, but they also want to create a new basis for doing business with Washington. In any crunch, the Soviets are almost certain to opt for better relations. In addition to their fears of U.S.-Chinese collusion, the Soviets are motivated by economic self-interest in wanting to bring the nuclear arms race under control via the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, now under way in Helsinki. A first-phase pact covering anti-ballistic missiles...
...Government also has bled money from the railroads. Under Section 22 of the Interstate Commerce Act, passed in 1887, railroads have been pressed into hauling Government freight free or at reduced rates. That hurts because the Government is now the railroads' largest customer. Through the ICC, the Government has further sanctioned an impossibly complicated railroad rate structure. The ice maintains an unindexed file of 43 trillion different rates on varying weights of varying commodities moving varying distances. The general level of rates is both too high and too low: too high to prevent traffic from fleeing to competing carriers...
...stories in which the studios figure as greedy, depersonalized monsters, feeding off creativity and destroying it in the process. They are legion: stories of actors locked into wretched contracts, used physically and emotionally; stories of writers slaving over their pictures, only to have autocratic stars change the sweated and bled dialogue on whim, backed up by the studio's full consent; stories of directors's painstakingly crafted films cut and reassembled so as to be unrecognizable. A great cry of "Cheat!" hovers in the dusty...
...composition of the show--and in the recognition that he claims each of his works to be a phial filled with his own blood, it is also often easier to approach the rather bloodless monochromes, the complex intellectuality that produced his early Cubism. Possessing, too, a heart that bled for humanity, he turned not only to the art, but also to the politics of the avant-garde, to Communism. He painted his sympathy for the political or social underdog in shades of mournful blue and used the fragmented vision of his Cubism to illustrate the emotional chaos generated...
...like Louvain, Antwerp and Brussels. The earliest major piece in the church, a 12th century Crucifixion carved in lindenwood, has all the pathos of a spiritualized image discovering the resistances of the body: the long oval face, the crudely gouged hair, the hacked spear wound and the thin, knob-bled torso almost physically displace the pain of nailed flesh into the pain of wood attacked by a chisel...