Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kooning's portraits are equally fascinating. Portrait of Max Morgulis displays great sensitivity to the intensity of the pencil line. Subtle changes in pressure lend a delicacy to the face, which seems to emerge quietly from the paper. A less representational series of pen and ink drawings are devoted to the female form in relation to its surroundings. In Figure in Interior the human body is absorbed by bold black strokes that envelop it. The woman in Untitled, 1967, is swept up in the rhythm of the lines as one might be carried off by a hurricane...
...Rumsfeld, then Ambassador to NATO, beckoned Goldwin to Brussels to lend a hand. There the professor contributed to drafting the Ottawa Declaration, which reaffirmed the Atlantic Alliance. When Rumsfeld joined Ford's White House as chief of staff, he persuaded Goldwin to turn down a faculty job at the University of Pennsylvania and follow...
...coup in Uganda involved a classic case of arms bouncing from country to country. The five Sherman tanks used by General Idi Amin Dada in the army revolt against President Milton Obote were originally sent by Washington to the Soviets under the World War II Lend-Lease Act. Moscow later transferred them to the Egyptians, from whom they were captured by the Israelis in 1967. Israel overhauled the tanks and then delivered them to Uganda as part of an aid program...
Whether B.U. will have recovered mentally from its upset at Colgate remains to be seen, but Durocher feels the loss may lend impetus to the Terriers' retrieval of the coveted title...
...publishers. They are swept away by the power of such insights as material success corrupts; bedfellows make strange politics; and cash calms many qualms. Director Michel Deville (Benjamin) preaches his simplistic, satiric sermon with the help of a number of attractive women (Romy Schneider, Florinda Bolkan, Miss Birkin), who lend the movie a certain substance by getting undressed as often as possible. Jay Cocks