Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CITIZEN WELLES by Frank Brady (Scribner's; $24.95). Anecdote and scholarship are nicely balanced in this biography of the late Orson Welles, whose roller- coaster career in stage, screen and radio covered the spectrum from classics to commercials...
WHISTLER AND HIS CIRCLE, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul. Etchings, lithographs and paintings representing Whistler's high achievements in those media, as well as his influence on other late 19th century artists, chiefly such Americans as Joseph Pennell, Charles Keene and John Marin. Through June...
Several spouses have got into Betty Wright-like trouble. In 1976 Marion Javits, wife of the late Senator Jacob Javits, had to forgo a lucrative contract with Iran Air. In 1984 Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield's wife Antoinette ran into trouble when Greek businessman Basil Tsakos paid her $55,000 for decorating his apartment, which seemed like a lot for choosing fabric swatches and paint chips, while her husband was simultaneously urging federal support for Tsakos' $12 billion oil pipeline...
...fact, the economic conditions that provoked the unrest had been simmering for more than a year. Jordan has long been living beyond its means; a decade of Arab aid and overambitious borrowing provided an illusion of prosperity. But lately the money has begun to run out. Since last summer the Jordanian dinar has fallen 45% in value, while unemployment (now about 15%) and inflation (up to 30%) climbed steadily. In late March the government agreed on a budget-balancing plan with the International Monetary Fund aimed at paring the country's deficit and, ultimately, rescheduling Jordan's $6 billion foreign...
...remaining seaborne oil within the next two weeks and scrub all the fouled shoreline before cold weather arrives in September. But Alaskan officials grimaced with skepticism. "Sounds too rosy," said Dennis Kelso, Alaska's environmental conservation commissioner. "Look at Exxon's track record till now -- too little, too late, and too many excuses...