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...executives. Referring to the Abscam scandal, Senator Robert Dole quips: "Maybe the Justice Department is so busy with members of Congress that it doesn't have time for Cabinet officers." But without a special prosecutor the nagging question will remain: As chairman of Textron, was G. William Miller lax or lying...
Jung discussed the loopholes and lax enforcement of anti-discrimination laws and the changing nature of family life as reasons why ERA is necessary. The supportive audience also assisted Jung, calling out answers to a question about how the ERA would benefit...
...painting could express. Impressionism had been the art of the bourgeois paradise, naturalism unmodulated by idea. It had no content beyond the "view" ("Monet is only an eye," Cezanne said, "but good God, what an eye!"), no governing system of imagery, no symbols. To younger artists, it therefore seemed lax and unambitious. They wanted to return painting to a more demanding kind of diction ?exemplary and grand, like the art of the museums. All manner of stylistic sources fed into their project: the abstracted allegories of Puvis de Chavannes, for instance, gave some cues to Gauguin...
...East Cambridge, angry students and parents crowded into the hot upper room of the East End community center to shout at Lannon and school committee member Glenn Koocher about lax security and racial tension at the school...
...Defense and Space Systems Group near Los Angeles. The young man's duties included handling coded messages from the CIA about spy satellites. He worked in a room called the Black Vault, off limits to all but half a dozen TRW employees. The group found plant security so lax that they spent their days getting drunk on booze smuggled in via a CIA pouch, mixing daiquiris in a document shredder and selling Amway household products over the secure telephone line. Chris was sometimes sober enough to be appalled by the messages he was handling: the CIA was spying...