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...down in 1960. The owner of the cross, a greasy Yugoslav with the unlikely name of Ante Topic Mimara, finally lets Hoving see the piece, and its beauty confounds him. Then, the hard part: The Met, where Hoving is assistant curator of the Medieval Department and the Cloisters, must outlast the competition and fork over...
...numbers less than a quarter of the total. New union organizing drives flounder much more often than they succeed, usually through intimidation and high-pressure tactics by union-busting consultants. Even in traditionally unionized areas--coalmining, for instance--non-union production is on the rise, as owners learn to outlast and out-maneuver their workers. The partisan political power of unions has all but disappeared; Lane Kirkland, as AFL-CIO chief the most important unionist in the country, couldn't even win Democratic support for a tax cut plan genuinely helpful to the working class...
...busting caps for firing a weapon, cherry for inexperience, hooch for shelter, No. 10 for the worst, klick for kilometer, slick for helicopter, Spooky for gunship. Santoli's approach is more traditionally documentary, though both books reveal a deranging truth: memories of war's exhilarations often outlast the horrors and revulsions...
...secret of the militant left has been its patient cultivation of party members at the grass roots. Their technique? Simply to outlast and outtalk older party members. Under pressure from families or jobs, the elders are not as inclined as the militants to argue politics into the wee hours. Protests right-wing Dissident Leader Shirley Williams: "When the moderates resist, they are howled down...
...seriously as a musical comedy although Harry Nilsson's songs are plentiful, appropriate and tuneful. Even in the most lightweight musical, one or two songs often transcend the limits of the plot and stand on their own merits. None of the new songs in Popeye however, are likely to outlast the film...