Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stories about deHory's life make for a marvelous puzzle. The man affects the aristocrat, adopting the "de" before his pseudonym and wearing a monocle. Yet Irving traces his origins back to a Budapest ghetto, where deHory started life as Elemere Hoffman. Irving claims that Elmyr's fakes hang in prestigious museums all over Europe and America, but the so-called experts insist not. Others swear up and down that deHory signed the paintings he forged, making their sale illegal; the charming counterfeiter (no doubt at his lawyer's behest) denies the charge. The testimony conflicts like crazy...
...about $840 million, which the government sorely needs; it must reduce the budget deficit in order to qualify for a $3.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. The transaction will still leave the government holding 51% of BP?at least if British courts let the Bank of England hang on to a 21.5% block of BP stock that it picked up two years ago in a bailout of cash-strapped Burmah Oil Co. (Burmah has petitioned to get the shares back...
...campy, and there are two excellent performances. One is by Charles Grodin as the leader of the expedition that starts out looking for oil and ends up with this large, furry problem on its hands. Grodin plays the honcho as a hard-bailer of the sort that used to hang around the Nixon White House and creates a vicious, accurate parody of one of our more distressing contemporary types. The other is, of course, by that combination of men and machinery that create the Mighty Kong. The expressive range they have provided for him is far wider than that...
Weakened Ally. Goenka and Irani are pursuing their struggles independent of each other, unwilling to risk charges of conspiracy. They do share a determination to hang on as long as they can. Yet the Prime Minister last month pushed a constitutional amendment through Parliament that will, when it takes effect this week, weaken the publishers' major ally, the judiciary...
...reasons why J. Edgar Hoover was able to hang on to power at the FBI for 48 years, until his death at 77 in 1972, was a collection of files he kept in cabinets in his private office. Known as Hoover's "O.C. files" (for official and confidential), they were crammed with salacious tidbits about the private manners and morals of politicians and other public figures, ready to be used or not used at the director's discretion. Every President was reluctant to tangle with Hoover, much less try to oust him, because he had such a strong...