Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hegemonist intentions." Said a Government analyst who has heard Teng's presentations several times: "They've been doing that to us for six years." Another State Department expert predicted that no matter how muted Teng might prove in his public statements, in private he would stress that the primary object of his trip was to persuade the U.S. to take a tougher stance toward the Soviet Union. That, said the expert, would take precedence even over Teng's search for help in modernizing China...
...object of this criticism is CIA Director Stansfield Turner, 55, who last week was being blamed by critics for the CIA'S failure to warn the White House months ago that Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was in danger of losing his throne. Only two days after the Shah went into exile, the House International Relations Committee began hearings on the Iran crisis and the CIA's inability to predict its outcome. Acknowledged a CIA official: "The agency will go through a wringer. We'll take our lumps...
...horrified to help and not gypsy enough to understand. Dave turns to Sharon, his mother's friend, who has had her eyes on him for a while. After washing his wound she puts Zharko's medallion--which Dave is conveniently carrying-- around his neck. He doesn't object. Nor does he object to her affection--thus he returns to the gypsy fold...
Some 20,000 people have been relocated. Forty communities have been resettled, at an average yearly cost of $20 million. And still the job is only partly done. In the coming decades, 10,000 more people will be resettled and other new communities will rise. The object of this undertaking: to tap West Germany's great lignite, or brown coal, reserves, the largest in Europe, without causing irreparable destruction to the landscape...
That sense of reality in the midst of abstraction, of the painting as an object rather than an image, would stay with Nicholson. It is not much to the fore in his first tentative cubist paintings, but it is evident in the severely geometric white reliefs Nicholson did in the 1930s under the spell of constructivism and Mondrian, and it pervades his later work. The viewer is always aware of material gently asserting itself: how the tobacco-brown hardboard, rubbed and glazed with a pow dery white or blue that clings to its sur face like fog to a headland...