Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prenotification is a key part of Carter's anti-inflation strategy. The President does not want to let wage and price boosts follow their own course; yet he has ruled out controls, and is reluctant to proclaim hard-and-fast guidelines businessmen and labor leaders would be expected to follow. That leaves jawboning against individual pay and price hikes, but Carter would like to avoid noisy public confrontations. So his advisers have been passing the word that corporate and union chiefs planning increases that could significantly affect the economy should talk them over with Administration officials privately in advance...
Another sequence takes place in a nightclub lighted by naked bulbs. Here marcelled flappers dance with their tuxedoed escorts. They are the last few who have hard currency from other countries. "They drank fast, danced fast and made love fast," Bergman told the extras, "so have a merry time...
Thanks to Manet's etchings and a few haunting daguerreotypes, the poet's face is more familiar than his work. Eyes: piercing and "as brilliant as drops of coffee," to borrow Baudelaire's own phrase. Face: as angled with cutting edges as an ascetic on a fast. Mouth: mocking and self-mocking, with lips shaped for sneers and blasphemies. Dress: black with dazzling white shirt and pale pink gloves-Satan as dandy. Add a setting (thick carpets, low lights, leather volumes of the more decadent Latin poets, the fragrance of hashish everywhere, a black girl coming...
...restaurant and a delicatessen, Naropa offers degree programs in psychology, Buddhist studies and art, as well as certificate programs in Western dance, theater and poetry. Its faculty includes Modern Dancer Barbara Dilley, Novelist William Burroughs and Poets John Ashbury and Allen Ginsberg. Says Resident Poet Anne Waldman: "Naropa is fast becoming the poetics capital of America. It has the most diverse collection of accessible poets around...
Just as everybody was getting used to perpetual losing efforts by the Harvard basketball team, the cagers pulled a fast one and came up with their first win in their last 11 tries, a 68-64 nipping of Brown Saturday night as the sparsely-populated...