Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose work greatly influenced the New Wave directors of the 1950s (including Truffaut and Godard) and onetime Apprentices Luchino Visconti and Satyajit Ray, Renoir considered himself primarily a storyteller, always filming his special kind of tale. "I am interested in what happens to people," he once explained, "when they must adapt to a new world...
...portion of their official reserve holdings to create a kind of central bankers' supermoney. The European Currency Unit, or "ecu," is intended to be the precursor to a Common Market currency that would at least partly replace marks, francs, guilders and other national money. Each member nation must contribute not only paper money but also 20% of its gold reserves to the pool that will back the new ecu. In short, the ecu will be partly supported by gold. Laments one discouraged U.S. Treasury official: "The drive to demonetize gold has clearly suffered a major reversal. In just...
Hedrick, 68, whose florid face testifies to years spent in the summer sun and winter winds of Wichita, points out that "this certainly isn't the world's fanciest climate, so we must have other advantages." In his view, one echoed by various local business and labor chiefs: "A work ethic still exists in this part of the world. People feel they have to give a day's work for a day's pay." Local people commonly speak of the city's Midwestern "openness." Says Hedrick: "I was in North Palm Beach the other...
Murder at the ABA (Doubleday, $7.95 hardcover; Fawcett, $1.75 paperback). At a convention of the American Booksellers Association, a bestselling young novelist named Giles Devore is found dead in his hotel room. The only one who suspects foul play is Author Darius Just, and he must work his way through a healthy number of suspects to prove his case. The formula is familiar, and Asimov, wearing his mystery writer's hat, works it out with ease. He also introduces himself as a character and manages to dominate long passages of the novel; when Asimov is not onstage, other characters...
...preferable that Harvard put even illegitimate earnings (as from apartheid) to a good cause (a school for public servants or a chair in Third World studies) than that it be reinvested in those illegitimate enterprises. By these criteria, the Engelhard Foundation's money could be kept, but the name must be changed--the motive behind the gift may have been pure, but its effect is to make legitimate (to future public servants and the public) America's complicity in apartheid...