Word: labyrinths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imagine a more delightful revival than that mounted by the New Phoenix Repertory Company. Harold Prince has directed it with a marvelously light touch, and the cast bestows elegance on the incessant sexual innuendo. To unravel the plot would be as tricky as negotiating the Minotaur's labyrinth, but it remains understandable throughout the evening...
...outward appearances, Colby is unsuited for dirty tricks. "I'd call him an enlightened cold warrior," says a CIA officer. "But remember that this business is cold." In 1971, Colby went back to the CIA labyrinth in Langley...
...then endorsed by no less a conservative than Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. Designed as a pilot program, the campaign and its response have provided a representative sample of what-and who-is bugging citizens all over the U.S. The most common complaints concerned the difficulty of penetrating the bureaucratic labyrinth, only to find a Minotaur at the end. Almost as numerous have been insoluble hassles with billing computers and instances in which a would-be buyer was turned down because a credit bureau provided a report based on unfavorable but unchecked information. (Some credit-bureau employees admitted that investigators...
...time, little more. Life in the Indian district of the city is a resurrection of the ancient customs of the small villages of the altiplano. Without this sprawling marketplace to serve as both an economic and social center, the migrating peasants would be even more completely lost in the labyrinth of urban life...
...report under deadline pressure in any medium. That burden was only partially eased by the White House decision to hold three briefing sessions starting on Friday, Dec. 7, about 24 hours before the official release of the information. Presidential advisers, using charts and pointers to explain Nixon's labyrinth in cash flow and purchases, unloaded enough figures to gag a roomful of accountants. Editors for the most part followed suit, publishing an overwhelming array of disparate stories and arcane tables. The Milwaukee Journal and Miami Herald, for example, presented a kaleidoscope of summaries, texts, wire-service rundowns and assorted...