Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WHICH seems like so much quibbling, albeit understandable quibbling. What Collier and Horowitz are trying to do is to create a grand, novelistic family epic where personal sins and relationships have an exact coincidence with the world the Rockefellers dominate. Thus the Ludlow massacre, and its strikingly similar grandchild at Attica, are made to seem as if they hover over the family consciousness like a dark cloud--but in a world as protective and as solipsistic as the one the Rockefellers inhabit, that may very well not be the case at all. Collier and Horowitz make a convincing argument...
...president of the Law School Council said yesterday he plans to ask various minority law student organizations to "exact sanctions at the national level" against a Chicago law firm that is currently the object of a Law School student's discrimination complaint...
...Every time they dunk, the crowd goes bananas," recalls Kallaugher. "It was phenomenal. All of a sudden 6000 people said 'fua.' It was outrageous." Kallaugher was quizzical when it came to pinning down the exact meaning of "fua." "It's an emotional word that just has to do with a dunk," he explained...
...green beans. All the ingredients in his sauce base must be chopped up to the size of peas in order to increase the cooking surface for the fast, dry heating he gives them. "I mix my vegetables together the way a painter mixes colors-until he obtains the exact shade that he wants," says Guérard in one of his favorite painting metaphors. But it is deliciously simple in taste and calorie count. One of Guérard's favorite dishes, l'aiguillette de caneton au poivre frais (breast of duckling in pepper sauce), packed a belt...
...critic is equally hysterical about another large-scale plagiarism: the Divine Comedy of Hilario Lambkin Formento. This nonbook is not a brazen, word-for-word theft, Domecq insists, but rather the best piece of descriptive criticism ever penned on Dante's masterpiece, since it is an exact replica of the original...