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...design Renaissance Center, a $500 million development that should give a new spin to the Motor City. He also has buildings completed or planned in Chicago, Chattanooga, Los Angeles, Fort Worth, Brussels and Paris. Last week the gentle, soft-spoken Portman, 48, announced that he will make his first foray into Manhattan, putting up a $150 million combination hotel-theater that is designed to restore some of the glitter to the tarnished Times Square area...
...because the subject matter and style are thoroughly intertwined. They evolve into a vivid documentary recreation of the artist's personal encounters with reality. Breaking out of the stifling cocoon of a wealthy family, and reacting against the highly stylized fashion photography of her job, Diane Arbus made her foray into the freak world to establish a much needed contact with a hard core reality. She was motivated by this psychological drive and not by any perverse delight in the sensationalism of the subject matter. Overcoming ingrained social inhibitions, Arbus succeeded in the investigation of this new territory. An ample...
...previous week, Nixon made a Friday foray out into carefully chosen country, this time Pekin, 111. He delivered another tub-thumping speech about America and his accomplishments, and was rewarded with warm smiles and applause. But then it was off to his Key Biscayne retreat and an encapsulated atmosphere where it is just possible that Nixon still knows, and understands less about Watergate than the average American television viewer...
Neither did Robert Kennedy ever step completely out of his previous role as an infighting politician. His electoral foray into New York in 1964 was a stage-managed grab for power, and even in his last campaign he never dispersed the tough-minded, practical New Frontiersmen who had always clustered around him, cautioning against excess, staging touch football games with poor kids for the television cameras and the campaign documentaries...
Quoting Liddy, McCord claimed that Mitchell had received the fruits of the burglarizing team's first foray into the Watergate, last May 27. The haul included photographs of Democratic documents as well as illegally intercepted telephone conversations. Liddy told him, McCord testified, that Mitchell "liked the 'takes' [photos]" of documents and wanted more of them made. The burglars returned to the Watergate on June 17 to repair one telephone tap that was not working properly and also because "Mr. Mitchell wanted a room bug installed in Mr. O'Brien's office in order to transmit...