Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artists, wives, mistresses, children, or dealers and collaborators. Even when his subjects become most mythic-whether huge, sculpted Cycladic heads or etchings confronting fragile female beauties with bullheaded male monsters-the impetus can be traced to concerns in Picasso's personal life. No painter alive has recorded the exact day he falls in love, or turns against a woman, with more precision...
Nuts & Bolts. Last week Sik and his aides were busy drafting the myriad regulations that will take effect on Jan. 1. These include such nuts-and-bolts matters as the exact level of taxation to be charged on enterprise profits, the exact proportion of bonuses, the exact changes in various wholesale prices arising from the end of subsidy. They may not succeed: the "oxen" with their Stalinist axes have cut down reform before and may stall it again before the New Year rolls around...
...Paraffin. Elizabeth was a dynamic perfectionist. She could spend months sniffing half a dozen sachets a day in order to find "the most wonderful smell in the world," and insisted on having the bows on packages retied again and again until they reached the exact, proper tilt. Since very few mortals were capable of her degree of dedication, the turnover among Arden employees was a byword in Manhattan career circles; but her exacting policies made great sense to her customers. Inside her salons (now numbering 50 in 33 countries), she similarly tried to perfect the Total Woman-physically, mentally...
...three executives, directors of programming at their respective networks, were braced for the first Nielsen ratings of the season. There was no reason for concern: their own glazed eyes could tell them that the new shows they had scheduled with great ballyhoo left some thing - entertainment, to be exact - to be desired...
Projected Figures. Exact figures are impossible to obtain, since suicides in college are kept closely under wraps. Many are recorded as "accidents"-mainly because a suicide leaves feelings of shame and guilt among the living. Moderator Editor Philip Werdell, 25, arrived at his estimates by probing every study he could find, then discreetly burying a question about suicide in a questionnaire on psychiatric services sent to 300 colleges. He got some candid answers, projected the figures from them...