Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth of the matter is you're just more comfortable without so many clothes on," Carroll E. Wood, professor of Biology, said yesterday. "Actually we haven't proven an exact biological explanation for spring fever. Perhaps it's a lingering primeval mating urge...
...problem of the creator, the man who tries to restructure experience to make it art. Casanova of Fellini's imagining, who has tried to make his life's pursuit the transforming of the ultimate natural experience into art, who wants to transform the phrase "to make love" into an exact description, is a figure of the artist. Casanova has given up his humanity for art; lovemaking is something he must control and design. As a result, he succeeds in giving pleasure to others, but he can only take pleasure in artifice. Indeed, he himself becomes no more than a created...
...University of Colorado's Institute of Behavioral Science interviewed hundreds of public officials, businessmen, journalists and families in earthquake-prone areas of California. Their conclusion, made public in a 40-page study: unless planning is begun now to prevent it, "the first credible earthquake prediction ... will exact a very high price in economic dislocation and social disruption...
Gifts to the Fund range from $1 to $100,000, Clifton says. The largest gift given by a single living individual through the Development Office was between $10 and $15 million, Peterson, who did not have the exact figure, says. The donor wishes to remain anonymous, he adds. Several bequests in this range or even larger have been made in recent years, Peterson says, such as the Mallinckrodt gift which matures in 1984 at a value in the $20 million range...
...really just another Spanish city with Indians.") No matter. Since 1938, when he bought his first camera-he was then an accounting clerk with the Chrysler Corp. in Detroit-Callahan's entire work has been directed with obsessive, addicted purity to one chief question: What is the exact nature of a still photograph, and what marks it off from any other kind of visual image...