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...contrast, The Romantic Rebellion is a quiet, smooth-flowing distillation of a lifetime's thought. It examines just twelve artists in the 14 half-hour episodes that follow this week's hour-long introduction. And even within these shows, there is no attempt to examine a subject's entire work. Instead, Lord Clark picks out key examples for close contemplation-discerning for us, in the modeling of a figure, the curve of a line or the choice and application of colors, the rise and fall of individual careers, artistic ideals and even cultural ideas...
...were slow. During the first two days of trading, not a single sale was made in any of European-American Bank's 104 branches in the New York City area. Trading was brisk on half a dozen U.S. commodity exchanges, where gold-futures contracts were being traded along with futures for frozen pork bellies, hogs, cattle and eggs. In the first half-hour of frenzied trading at Chicago's Mercantile Exchange, dealers bought and sold no fewer than 452 contracts for future delivery-the biggest opening on the exchange, they said, since boneless beef made its debut...
...price, look and listen, but don't buy. His profit margin is large enough to afford a few browsers. If the displayed price is already marked down, then the trick is to appear ready to buy a system or component, but unsure about what and from whom. After a half-hour of hesitation the salesman will either drop the price or throw you out. Some other techniques that work: seem dumb but price conscious. Again, after a while, he'll probably cut the price 10 per cent to give you "what you've got your heart set on." The most...
...than willing to pay the price. Johnny's brother Joe was dispatched to Pittsburgh under an assumed name to confer with school officials. He came back with the promise that Majors could recruit with few Limitations, would earn a salary estimated at $30,000 and have his own half-hour television show-a job worth at least $10,000. Majors was more than satisfied...
...Israel, Kissinger's plane was scheduled to land at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport a half-hour before the Jewish Sabbath was over. Israeli protocol officers advised the blue and white jet to circle somewhere until the holy day officially ended...