Word: either
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balding and of athletic build. (Is it by chance too that the picture of Lem on the book's back cover matches this description?) In addition, the men were wealthy, single, and had been receiving treatments for rheumatism at the Vittorini mineral baths. In two years, all eleven men either vanished, went insane or committed suicide. After an unsuccessful inquiry by the Italian carabinieri, John is called in to pose as Adams, one of the victims, in the hope that he can induce a repetition of the circumstances that led to Adam's death...
...Canadian Prime Minister: competing for newspaper space with serialized tattletale excerpts from Beyond Reason, the memoirs of his estranged wife Margaret, 30. As he has since their separation in 1977, Trudeau maintained a dignified silence about Margaret, whose revelations about their life together are unlikely to affect the election either...
...radical experiments of the Russian constructivists, Tatlin, Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Puni; from Alexander Archipenko's wall reliefs to Julio Gonzalez's iron constructions and Alexander Calder's fluttering mobiles. Artists as unlike as Naum Gabo and David Smith were affected by it. No sculptor interested in either ideal formal systems or new materials was immune to its promises, and its influence persists to this day. Sculpture had been solid since paleolithic man made his fertility dolls, indeed since God made Adam out of clay; it now became a matter of intersecting planes, of wires springing through space...
...Unlike Robards, who knew the man and brings friendship to the role, Raffin has never met Brooke. Still, she feels she knows something about survival because of the schlock she has played in. "I was very hurt by the experience," she says, "and I had to grow a lot. Either that, or not survive...
...Either way, anybody in the business of pleasing a mass audience-which used to be a simple game of playing hunches but is now codified, computerized and constantly tested by market research-can only by stretching the word be considered powerful. A powerful king could do as he damned well pleased; in France, the capricious Louis XIV has been succeeded by the democratic Giscard d'Estaing, who is allowed only to be crotchety. Networks and newspaper chains are far larger than what William Randolph Hearst ruled, but Hearst was a real press lord and his successors are not. Without...