Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feeling as I do that art in both its creation and criticism is largely an individual matter, I still find Richard Schickel's television review of Roots [Jan. 24] unacceptable...
...Freeze [Jan. 31] shows that nature has more clout than all the oil embargoes, politicians and man-made contrivances put together. If this small show of power doesn't drive home the importance of conservation over waste, we are truly a hopeless...
...carefully orchestrated press conference, Claustre reported that she had actually been released Dec. 13 but had asked to remain with the rebels until her husband Pierre, who was being held in a separate camp, was also freed. The couple finally left the rebels' stronghold under Libyan escort on Jan. 24. Four days later they arrived in Tripoli, where Gaddafi insisted on giving them an archaeological sightseeing tour before handing them over to the French...
...meeting, Chapin announced that a group of U.S. banks had agreed to extend for a year a $72.5 million credit that expired Jan. 31. Also, A.M.C. negotiated the sale of stamping-plant equipment in South Charleston, W. Va., to Volkswagen. Though A.M.C. will now have to buy parts from Volkswagen, the sale will raise much-needed cash. How much, Chapin will not say, but it appears that A.M.C. will be able to redeem some $20.5 million in notes held by the Union Bank of Switzerland that come...
...Spiro Agnew Memorial Ethnic Slur Award, which last year went to Earl Butz, is already under way. A strong early bid has been made by Federal Trade Commissioner Paul Rand Dixon, who called Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader a "son of a bitch" and a "dirty Arab" in a Jan. 17 speech before the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Nader's offense was charging that the commission coddled industry at the expense of the public. Dixon's semiapologetic remarks to a reporter did not help matters much. Conceding that his slur on Nader, who is of Lebanese descent, had been...