Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper. The works, both abstract and realistic, are small and intimate in feeling and vary greatly in quality. Still, the show is an insight into some of the types of art being done today and an excellent reason to visit the Drawing Study, one of the Fogg's best-kept secrets...
...first time into a movie. Eventually it has to be dealt with on its own terms. And these terms are, for the most part, non-cinematic in the avante-garde sense of the word. Bogdanovich sticks strictly to the traditional narrative film, so much so that editing is kept to a minimum. Instead he prefers smooth transitions within scenes: the long-shot, dolly-in and pan. The colors are rich, almost too opulent--the Victorian chambers begin to blend into each other in a boring kind of luxuriance, and that doesn't help the sometimes tedious dialogue...
Ehrlichman's defense received some help from high places. In response to written interrogatories, President Nixon stated that he had urged the plumbers' operations to be kept secret. He thus implied that Ehrlichman was acting on presidential orders when he tried to conceal the break-in and was not just maneuvering to camouflage his own role...
...then, understandably dissatisfied with their own wage scale of $8,761 to $11,082, the cops walked out, demanding that they too be given a wage increase larger than that provided in the budget. Although so-called "job actions" have kept cops off the beat in other cities, this was the first official strike by police in a major U.S. city since 1919 in Boston. Police-union officials claimed that 1,300 of Baltimore's 2,300 patrolmen had joined the strike, although the police commissioner insisted that only 600 were out. Picketing cops marched with signs that said...
...Basel, Switzerland, last week for a meeting at the Bank for International Settlements, a sort of central bankers' central bank. The central bankers reportedly agreed "in principle" to lend money to bail out private banks caught in a liquidity squeeze just as the U.S. Federal Reserve has kept Franklin National in business by lending it more than $1 billion. However, they specifically ruled out aid for banks caught in "irresponsible" foreign exchange dealings. The decision was no comfort to Herstatt depositors and creditors, who still stand to lose up to a staggering $1.4 billion, but it might help...