Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, Miriam arrives at a seemingly healthier strategy for survival than most of Kaplan's other protagonists. Drawn into superficial conformity with a ritualistic world (in camp the bugle sounded early each morning, and "there was no way at all to stop anything that came after"), she nevertheless vows to "keep all her aliveness a secret...
Oral arguments will begin today on the plan drawn up by the four court-appointed masters for desegregating Boston schools...
...during an argument aloft. The trouble began, say airline officials, when Wexler insulted a cardiac patient who was being outfitted with special oxygen apparatus. After an unscheduled landing in Denver, the writer was tossed off the plane and into the arms of waiting police. In 1972, Wexler had drawn a quick jail stay and a year's probation when, in another mid-flight outburst, he held up a magazine cover of Richard Nixon and announced plans to kill the President. Denver authorities last week accused Wexler of interfering with a member of a flight crew, released...
...February, Chairman Harry Heltzer gave up his post as chief executive after paying a federal fine for engaging in unfair political campaign practices; he will not run for re-election to the board in May. Bert S.Cross, a former chairman who is head of the finance committee, has with drawn from active management and will quit the board in May. Financial Vice President Irwin Hansen, who faces a possible prison sentence on federal tax-evasion charges, resigned last November. In one legal action after another, 3M, among other things, has been found guilty of breaking the Federal Election Campaign...
...DESIGN of Cocteau's plays has been compared to the sparing, classic style of the profiles drawn by Picasso. The words he uses are simple and conversational, there are no elusive metaphors or philosophical musings in his script. The set is almost monochromatic and completely uncluttered, the few props seem commonplace. But your attention focuses unexpectedly on these everyday objects and conversations as they gradually take on a bizarre importance: the plot hardly adds to the intrigue. Certain words and objects make the play, the way a one-dimensional black line lends form to Picasso's etchings, without the help...