Word: prise
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...vote of 32,118 to 27,190. With the money assured, the city government cannily required the foundation, as part of the final transaction, to leave the impressionists and postimpressionists on loan for the next 15 years. And Picasso himself was so touched that he announced "a little sur prise" gift from his private collection: a Rose Period oil called La Famille, two big, brand-new Picassos done in his contemporary style, and a watercolor study for his first cubist work, Les Demoiselles a"Avignon, a painting which shocked some of his fellow artists but which changed the course...
...switch caught everyone by sur prise. Makarios had raised no insurmountable objections to the agreement during his two meetings with Vance earlier in the week. Vance was so confident that matters had been settled that he had been preparing in Athens for his return flight to the U.S. When he got word of the snag, he immediately jetted back to Nicosia for a four-hour meeting with Makarios, then went off to the U.S. embassy for a few hours of sleep while Makarios huddled with his Cabinet nearly all night. The next morning the two men met again...
...relationship between the fiction film and the documentary, the written script read and performed as cinema verite. In a style most closely resembling a travelogue, Chris Marker's masterpiece Le Mystere Koumiko reveals Japan's national character by following a young girl. Rosselini describes his newest film La Prise de Pouvoir de Louis XIV as an educational film, and indeed, its greatness emerges from the simplistic straight-forwardness of films about artists and poets shown in high school auditoriums. Most recently, Conrad Rooks' extraordinary Chappaqua is, from start to finish, a home movie...
...second assumption is the identification of markets and consumer choices with free enter prise. This is done rather subtly. After referring throughout the book to "free markets," Dorfman on the last page suddenly talks about free enterprise, and furthermore adds the obiter dictum about the connection between capitalism and democracy! In fact, most elements of the market system, although not of laissezfaire, are completely compatible with a socialist economy. Indeed, economist Oskar Lange, in his book on The Economic Theory of Socialism, capably argues that market socialism is more able to realize the theoretical outcomes of the market model than...
...effect, it is largely the resident dons in Oxford who have a say in the outcome. After weeks of argument at "high tables" and public readings of both men's poetry, the M.A.s filed in their black gowns into the domed Sheldonian to cast their ballots. The sur prise winner at week's end-and Oxford poetry professor for the next five years: Edmund Blunden, with 477 votes v. 241 for Loser Lowell...