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Rich Bengel, Fine's eminence grise in the backcourt, streamed the length of the court for an easy pair after McLaughlin called a time out. His first field goal of the night made it 18-12, as he finished the game with 17 points. The only other Crimson player in double figures was 6-ft., 9-in. center Brian Banks, who topped all scorers with 21 points, 15 of which came in the second half...
...confusion is compounded because there is no economic eminence grise in the Carter Administration. Says Blumenthal: "That label never applied to Bert [Lance] or to Charlie [Schultze] or to me, and in my judgment it probably never will. It's easy to convince yourself that you're the only one he's listening to, but that's baloney...
...junta moved swiftly to set up Prime Minister Tanin and an 18-man Cabinet of soldiers, civil servants and technocrats as a "clean hands" government. Among its first official acts was the appointment of a committee to probe graft. As Army Secretary Kriengsak Chamanan, NARC's éminence grise, told TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, "We have learned the lessons of South Viet Nam and Laos. In those countries, corrupted politicians were a main cause of their downfall." It remains to be seen, though, if the committee will be able to investigate the military's own swollen private enterprises...
...there is an eminence grise among living American artists, that man is Clyfford Still. The history of abstract expressionism, the movement that did most to coalesce the once frail identity of American art, is unimaginable without his vast Wagnerian canvases. But 15 years have passed since Still quit Manhattan in disgust for a ten-acre farm in Westminster, Md., and during that time his execrations of the "arrogant farce" of the art world-its neuroses, its museums, its critics, and their failure to come to grips with his work-have not ceased to be heard. He is the Coriolanus...
...archetypes. The "positive hero" is a working class Czech guy, who just returned from Syria where he was providing "brotherly help" on an engineering project. The "bad guy" is a son of the exploiting class, "pretentious, selfish and foreign to our country." The fact that he operates as "eminence grise" of various literary and political circles is not "an indication of exceptional gifts, but rather a symptom of an egoistic character, in his case almost innate." Why almost? Isn't it obvious since we learn later that his grandfather's real name was Bergmann! (The latter arrived poor from Galicia...