Word: compliants
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...fact. The first is to remind oneself of Picasso's energy, which stayed with him right to the end. That in itself is impressive: Don Juan at 91, creakily fornicating with his succession of blank canvases, struggling and failing, but then struggling again to trans form the too compliant image into a shield against death...
...theme is Not Quite Beating the Game. In Bottle Party, a fool named Frank becomes the owner of two bottles, one containing a clever genie and the other imprisoning the most beautiful girl in the world. Frank uses the genie and enjoys the girl, who is also loving and compliant, but he is disquieted when he notices that whenever the girl emerges from the bottle, she wears a look of heavy-lidded satiation. He is jealous, and the genie, who is very clever indeed, leads him on by observing that there is more room in bottles than one would think...
However laudable some of Nixon's aims, his almost furtive maneuvering from behind the protective screen of aides and private redoubts violates the spirit, if not the letter, of constitutional checks and balances-and through his appointive power Nixon may soon have a compliant Supreme Court that could render the Judicial Branch ineffective too. His actions also suggest a personal insecurity, a potentially divisive need to create or magnify enemies so as to avoid his feared letdown...
...country's political sidelines. Because Nicaragua's constitution bars him from immediately succeeding himself to a second five-year term as President, So moza last spring relinquished power for 2½ years to a three-man junta. Though the junta is headed by a compliant mem ber of the Conservative opposition, it is in fact controlled by its two Somoza loyalists, both members of his Liberal Party. They would keep the general's place warm until 1974, when he was to come down from the bleachers and run for another five-year presidential term...
Czechoslovakia's enforced return to political orthodoxy has not changed Moscow's uneasiness about the country's future. It is doubtful that the Russians would unilaterally pull out their troops, no matter how compliant the Czechoslovaks appear. Paradoxically, Czechoslovakia's main hope of getting out from under Soviet occupation may lie in the possibility of some broad East-West agreement to legitimize Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. Some officials in Prague have expressed hope that the 33-nation European Security Conference, scheduled for early 1973, might ultimately result in reductions of both Soviet and NATO forces...