Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles office of the DEA had picked up tips as long ago as March 1980 that Hetrick might have been flying coke from Colombia to a landing strip near Biloxi, Miss. Not until last May, however, did agents get more tangible reports that Hetrick was planning to use his Mojave hangar as a place to off-load coke and marijuana from incoming aircraft. He had even boasted about a Colombian coke connection, federal agents learned. They were also told that Hetrick was looking for a U.S. bank to convert his illegal profits into a legitimate savings account more easily...
...Nixon's view, it would be a grave mistake for the U.S. to miss the opportunity now available. Says he: "China, with its population and resources, is eventually going to be a superpower in any event. It is vital that we help them become a superpower associated with the West rather than one that is against us. Developing that relationship, which will take skillful leadership, could be the overriding factor of the next ten years, perhaps of the next century. It may change the world...
...last day to purchase Yale tickets is today. Buy them in the basement of Harvard Hall: $5 for the first ticket, $15 or more to sit by a friend. Don't miss a chance to say you were at the big game...
...Iowa (pop. 6,800), Stockbroker Winfield Mayne's customers are keeping him busy twelve hours a day with requests for tips and quotes. Says he: "I think the more sophisticated investor here knows he missed the first run-up in August, and he doesn't want to miss this one too." Says C. Derek Anderson, president of his own discount brokerage in San Francisco: "Most definitely the little guy has come back into the market...
Well, up to a point. To suppose the work is only a satire on an obsolete propagandist style is to miss its deadlier thrust. What K & M are getting at is not just totalitarian art, but official art as such. Stalin and the Muses-showing Clio, muse of history, presenting a volume for revision to the mustachioed god in his transcendent white military greatcoat-is "objectively" a hilarious spoof, done in clumsily tight parody of the 17th century grand manner. But then, if these sleek pictorial tropes are I so absurd when lavished on Stalin, why should they...