Word: detainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...below. The floors are broken but connected by ramps, so that viewers move slowly downward through a constantly shifting interior, accented by promontories of raw concrete that jut over the halls like ships' prows. Says Director Peter Selz: "You devise ways and means of installing an exhibit to detain people, to keep them from moving on. Here we made cul-de-sacs and all kinds of things to keep people in front of a painting." Selz, 51, who quit his post as a curator of the Museum of Modern Art in 1965 to go to Berkeley, is delighted with...
...said they took seven people into custody for violating the curfew. all younger than 21. The seven were released to their parents, and no further charges will be filed. Police told most passers-by that they should not be on the streets because of the curfew, but did not detain them...
...Cyprus to avoid a showdown. Last month, at Makarios' request, he repudiated the National Front. Makarios then ordered a police crackdown on illegally held arms, and the Cyprus parliament dealt the Front an even stronger blow two weeks ago by passing a law enabling the government to detain suspected terrorists for three months without trial...