Word: combes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exoticism and neurosis, like Dali, but in hallucinatory ordinariness. One of the obsessions of surrealism was the way inexplicable events intruded into everyday life. With his dry, matter-of-fact technique, Magritte painted things so ordinary that they might have come from a phrase book: an apple, a comb, a derby hat, a cloud, a birdcage, a street of prim suburban houses, a businessman in a dark topcoat, a stolid nude. There was not much in this list that an average Belgian clerk, around 1935, might not have seen in the course of an average day. But Magritte...
...only began to take definite form in recent months and now awaits nothing but Corporation approval--expected late this spring--before the appeals for money can start. Harvard's development officials are already establishing a network of volunteers in each class and geographical area who will be ready to comb their classmates for money the moment the drive officially opens--perhaps after a two-day or longer stopover in Cambridge for training and instruction on just where the money they raise will go and why Harvard needs...
...successfully freed air fares. The Interstate Commerce Commission now proposes to make entry into the trucking business much easier for new operators and to end the rate fixing by conferences of truckers. Carter has pledged to make environmental and safety regulation less costly and appointed an interagency council to comb out overlapping and contradictory rules. Unfortunately, the council is made up of the regulators themselves. Weidenbaum dismisses it as "the sinners gathering together to protect themselves-a sick joke...
...name implies, the show is a junior version of the network's hard-punching weekly magazine-format program, 60 Minutes. It stars a couple of full-fledged CBS News correspondents, Betsy Aaron, 39, and Christopher Glenn, 40, who comb the country in search of stories that might interest teenagers and preteens-just as Dan Rather, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace do for adults. With slightly less success-at least from the looks of last Saturday's first 30 Minutes, which included rather pedestrian film reports on acne treatment and the plight of a justifiably obscure rock band trying...
...some of them take notes on the sheep wisdom being dispensed by experts. "If you comb the fecal matter out of your fleeces, they will bring higher prices," Bob Stewart, a professional wool buyer for Homestead Woolen Mills, explains to a small crowd, while everyone furiously scribbles down every word...