Word: consignment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot of this New York City gang movie is almost nonexistent, and what does exist is tedious. The large cast is wooden; the language is flat; the humor is childish, and the content would not engage the imagination of a lesser insect. Still, it is not so easy to consign The Warriors to the junk heap. Though The Warriors is trash, it is handsome trash. It excites the eyes even as it numbs the mind...
...waves. Giorgio Cavallon's career has been of this submerged kind. He is now 73, having been born near Vicenza in northern Italy in 1904, and he was one of the first abstract painters in New York in the 1930s, when painting abstract seemed automatically to consign an artist to ridicule and obscurity. In the '60s some of Cavallon's contemporaries, such as Milton Resnick or Lee Krasner, long written down as minor or fringe figures in the aesthetic star system, began to get their due; Cavallon is perhaps the last...
Bilateral Talks. Following its humiliating defeat, the government announced plans to hold bilateral talks with the opposition parties to see if any means could be found to save the devolution bill. But the vote seemed to consign the measure either to endless debate (only three of its 116 clauses had been considered in eleven days of discussion) or eventual abandonment for this session of Parliament. It drastically undercut Labor's position with Scottish voters and, though not a vote of confidence, raised the question of the Labor Party's ability to govern. For the first time since Prime...
...lady-or-the-tiger ending leaves doubt as to whether or not the unlashing of this slender tale will eventually consign Jerry and Sally to each other's arms in holy matrimony. It is difficult to care very much one way or another. Even so, Updike's old white writing magic has not lost its skill. He can still set a domestic scene, describe a sleeping child or evoke the sights and sounds of the marriage bed-and-bored sharply enough to bring a tear to the eye of the recording angel...
...incorrectly added that it was "no accident" that Amin was chairman of the Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.). Moynihan thus in effect denounced moderate African leaders along with the infamous "Big Daddy"?a mistake that may have cost crucial votes on a motion to postpone, and thus possibly consign to oblivion, the notorious anti-Zionist resolution that the General Assembly passed in November (see chart...