Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Altman's surest talents is the creation of a whole world, slightly antic and off-center, so that his movies (like McCabe and Mrs. Miller or Thieves Like Us) have a look of surprise, of the familiar transposed in some evasive but still palpable way. Once again he enjoys the collaboration of his excellent art director, Leon Ericksen, who has constructed an entire casino, brightly seedy and lit like a yellow-fever ward, which Altman populates with 24-hour night people. Their faces are ridden with worry, briefly flush with success. Their babble, their half-heard hopes framed...
...Ford's views seem inconsistent. For instance, he has favored broader use of wiretaps against citizens suspected of serious crimes, and was an early supporter of the federal "no-knock" law; yet he has also spoken out for the protection of individual privacy and expressed alarm about the creation of a comprehensive federal data bank. Ford voted for all the important pieces of environmental legislation, but holds that many federal environmental standards for industry should be eased...
Introduced by Hungate, the abuse of powers article embraced five areas of presidential activity: 1) attempted abuse of IRS information and audits; 2) use of wiretaps for purposes other than national security; 3) creation of the White House squad of secret investigators, the "plumbers"; 4) failure to prevent subordinates from impeding such investigations as those into the Watergate and Ellsberg burglaries; 5) interfering with the FBI, CIA, Watergate special prosecution force and the Department of Justice. The article was assailed by Wiggins as citing no violation of law, while his position was challenged by California Democrat George Danielson...
Allaying Fears. The leftists vocally critical of Caramanlis are the "exterior" (pro-Moscow) wing of the Communist Party and Andreas Papandreou, the maverick radical who has lived in exile for six and a half years. Papandreou insists that the new government was a creation of the CIA and is still in the hands of the armed forces...
Half a century after his final bow, Sherlock Holmes remains the best-known character in English fiction. With the possible exception of Hamlet and Don Quixote, he may be the most recognizable creation in all literature. The man in the deerstalker cap is the subject of a full-length biography (Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, by William Baring-Gould), the center of a club (the Baker Street Irregulars) and a palpable presence wherever police congregate, from Scotland Yard to Watergate. Less than two months ago, Samuel Rosenberg probed the sources of Sir Conan Doyle's imagination in Naked...