Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memoirist, was able to publish her new works with Knopf as long as North Point controlled the reprint rights. That way, Turnbull decided, Fisher had "both a husband and a lover." Writers and agents were assured that "our small size permits very personal attention. We take our authors' calls collect. An ear is always there to listen...
Hughes refrains from buying art seriously. "I don't think critics should collect because then they tend to find themselves in a net of obligations to artists and dealers that may be to the detriment of their own work," he says. "Besides, it is very restful, after a hard day in museums, to come home and look at a nice blank wall...
...report issued last February, the Reagan Administration charged Moscow with eleven separate violations of SALT II. The most serious include the illegal encoding of radio signals from Soviet missile tests, making it difficult for the U.S. to collect data necessary to verify treaty compliance. In addition, Washington accuses Moscow of developing two new strategic missiles, the ten-warhead SS-24 and the single-warhead SS-25, although the agreement allows only one. However, veteran Arms Negotiator Paul Warnke pointed out last week that the Soviets have also dismantled 1,000 ICBMs and twelve missile-launching submarines in accord with SALT...
Rock musicians revived the shirts again in the '70s, partly because the island of Maui became a heavy hangout and partly out of the counterculture reflex to challenge prevailing standards of taste. Today there is a hard core of fanatics who collect the shirts as if they were first editions and value them as what Eliot Hubbard, Publicity Director of CBS's Epic Records, calls "high art." Hubbard's shirt stash which, at 300 and counting, he claims is "the third biggest in the world," goes heavy on popular florals. "My tastes," he says, "run to big botanicals...
...siege began last Thursday with students drifting in ones and twos into the library. To the security guards on duty in the four-story former U.S. embassy building, everything seemed normal. A block away, police officers showed no concern when some other well-dressed young people began to collect in a passageway under the City Hall Plaza. Then, without warning, the youths rushed up from the passageway and began racing toward the building, flinging rocks and bottles at startled policemen. Surging inside, they joined the students already in the second-floor library and announced that they were taking the place...