Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left black and white tragedy for what seems a puppet stage. Her precisely-composed arrangements disconcert. A personage like Vionnet may be thought of in terms of pure design, color, fashion and grooming, but it somehow reduces Imogen Cunningham to see her elfed in this very miniature lens. Ezra Pound's hands, large and blurred between his knees in front of the camera, couldn't be frozen...
...tactless next-door neighbor, Miss Hartnell. "weather-beaten and jolly and much dreaded by the poor"; the wealthy, amiable Bantrys; taciturn Sir Henry dithering, who once ran Scotland Yard; and the village snob, Mrs. Price Ridley. Among Agatha Christie lovers, that lady is justly famous for putting a pound in the offertory bag on the anniversary of her son's death and then severely taxing gentle Vicar Clement when his counts show the largest contribution that Sunday to be ten shillings...
BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS. From auto workers to postmen, union leaders are endorsing Carter and assigning volunteers to register new voters and pound pavements. Boasts Thomas Bradley, head of the Metropolitan Baltimore Council of AFL-CIO Unions: "I haven't seen such unanimity among different unions since the Johnson-Goldwater election." This year, union help will be particularly valuable because what labor does on its own is not subject to the new federal election spending limits...
...Alert. Teachers lead the inmates, one by one, through specific textbook cases: "You are not married but are the mother of a child fathered by ..."; "You arrive at National Airport from New York, and a policeman finds a pound of marijuana by searching your suitcase ..." The courses wind up with mock trials, in which the convict-students prosecute and defend cases before actual judges from the D.C. bench. Says Garland Poynter, head of education at the District of Columbia Jail: "Once you learn the system, you learn to respect it. It decreases frustration." Thanks to street law's practical...
...Government and travel-industry estimates, some 100 million Americans will have toured their own country, spending well above $85 billion, possibly $10 billion more than last year. They will spend another $10 billion abroad, rediscovering old holiday favorites, such as Britain, where the newest attraction is the $1.80 pound (down from $2.40 in 15 months). Even France, where the franc last week dropped to 20? for the first time in more than two years, was welcoming American tourists in big numbers once again. And many of those American travelers are likely to meet foreigners going the other...