Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accord, which is to take effect by July 1, reduces the "trading margins" of the six member currencies from 4½% to 2¼%. In practice, that will mean Common Market currencies can drift no more than l⅛% either above or below the midpoint of the new 2¼% band. When any one currency reaches its upper or lower limits, the central banks of member countries will intervene by buying or selling each other's currencies. Until now, the banks have done this by buying or selling dollars...
...show is full of bits and pieces of waltzes, rhapsodies and tangoes and about as far away from typical Broadway fare as its setting in the Budapest of the 1930s. Eschewing razzmatazz show-stoppers, She Loves Me depends instead on a small ensemble and a collection of melodies that drift through the air--often in two and three-part combinations--as if they are the essences of the perfumes that line the walls of the story-book shop in which the action takes place. Director Josh Rubins has done well to maintain the wistful, delicate flavorings of the play, never...
Another Kagan experiment shows that girls of twelve months who become frightened in a strange room drift toward their mothers, while boys look for something interesting to do. At four months, twice as many girls as boys cry when frightened in a strange laboratory. What is more, Kagan says, similar differences can be seen in monkeys and baboons, which "forces us to consider the possibility that some of the psychological differences between men and women may not be the product of experience alone but of subtle biological differences...
...have a good deal in common. They are California's Paul ("Pete") McCloskey, 44, a Kennedy-esque Marine Reserve colonel who wants the U.S. out of Viet Nam at once, and Ohio's John Ashbrook, 43, a deep-dyed conservative who deplores Nixon's "leftward drift" on welfare, China, Keynesian deficits and in the U.S.-Soviet armaments race. Neither, however, has made much impression on the New Hampshire granite. Nixon's edge has dropped from 79% in October to 69% today in a state public television poll; McCloskey rates only 12%, Ashbrook...
...most part the drift into flamboyance is forgivable. In one scene in particular--Macbeth's second meeting with the witches--the visual overstatement undoubtedly enhances the text. Polanski fills a dank, green-smoked cavern with a bevy of the oldest, ugliest, cacklingest witches imaginable, and the grotesquerie, the outlandishness, is just in line with Shakespearean exuberance...