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Since his New York appearance a year ago (TIME, Oct. 15), Moon has spoken in all 50 states, typically drawing only several hundred people. Meanwhile, his church has bought a former Catholic seminary to expand Moon's schools for training outsiders. With a previously purchased estate and the lavish mansion where Moon lives, this gives the movement $3 million worth of property in the Hudson River Valley. The Moonmen say income for U.S. operations ($7 million last year) comes mostly from street peddling of flowers, peanuts and candles-which is possible, given the fervor of his international corps...
...result of the pardon, Congress will not meekly accede to Nixon's request for some $850,000 in transition funds, as endorsed by Ford and urged by a compliant General Services Administration. GSA Administrator Arthur F. Sampson, a Nixon appointee who had never objected to any of the lavish Government-financed improvements to Nixon's San Clemente and Key Biscayne properties...
...demands an artificial space, cold or meditative, in which nothing competes with the object. An extreme example is the work of Barnett Newman, the late dean of minimal art. Several of his austere steel pillars are dotted on the rolling, shaven greensward of one of Newport's more lavish mansions, The Elms. Isolated in their white museum cubicle and garnished with the rhetoric of sublimity, all Newman's sculptures look imposing. Here they might as well be garden gnomes. Not so with the work of David Smith, represented by ten sculptures across the lawn. But then Smith...
Smith, 38, is an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and the father of four daughters. His large and eccentric melodrama is marked by lavish skill at doing what novelists always need to do-write scenes, weave narrative threads, hatch and construct characters, see and smell and feel and describe. Good sentence piles upon good sentence until the novel sags and cracks. What it sorely needs is a blue pencil and an artistic point of view...
...opposition. So have the major oil companies, led by Exxon, and the farm groups, which recognize that the bill would kick up prices for their members' oil and gasoline. But their opposition pales in the face of strong lobbying by the shipbuilders and the maritime unions, which give lavish campaign contributions and generous speakers' fees to legislators...