Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy brings the Carter Administration closer to the view of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who has long advocated a step-by-step approach to a final settlement. The possible steps: an Israeli-Egyptian accommodation; then an Israeli agreement with Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the moderate Palestinians; and finally a settlement with Syria triggered by a hint to Damascus -and to Moscow-that would say, in effect: "We're making progress, and if you want to be included, you'd better get moving...
...artist set forth to construct an exemplary environment: Lissitzky's Proun Room, Van Doesburg's project for a university hall, Schwitters' Merzbau, Kandinsky's music room, and so on. Nevelson's palace is of their company. Yet its motives are not didactic; they are closer to folk art, to the "ideal palace" made from junk by the French postman Cheval from 1879 to 1912, or the Watts Towers built by Simon Rodia in Los Angeles. Collection, repetition, unification: these are the elements of Nevelson's poetic but wholly sculptural sensibility, and this time they...
...Upon closer examination, however, the new shows prove to be quite unlike the older ones whose formulas they borrow; plots and characters may be similar, but the message they deliver is not. ABC's blockbusters are downright obsessed with two subjects-youth and sex-that were never too important to earlier successful series. Obviously this twin fixation strikes a popular chord-for the Tuesday night hits win every age group in the Nielsen survey. The America they reflect is younger and sassier than the one that once embraced Lucy and Dobie. Happy Days'frantic pace...
...skillful cast saturates the evening with menace, mockery, melodrama and some one-on-one macho on a night-lit basketball court that brings the two men closer to each other than they have ever been to their wives...
...first half Bert Jones seemed even closer for the hapless Huskies were able to tally only 11 points to the Crimson's 30. Curry popped for 12 points and Meyers for six to lead the Crimson in what appeared to be a laugher...