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...could have killed him." Tkach, who has been criticized for allowing the President to travel while suffering from phlebitis, had urged Nixon to go into a hospital in Salzburg, Austria, during the early stages of his first trip. The President refused, saying that he had an "obligation" to proceed to the Middle East. Later, said Tkach, the clot became "fixed" - attached to the wall of the vein - and the danger to the President's life was now "pretty much gone...
...would quarrel with Jackson's goals. But by taking his tough approach toward negotiations with the Soviets, he seems willing to risk reviving the cold war rather than trying to proceed step by step toward significant détente...
...Paris Bourse. French Finance Minister Jean-Pierre Fourcade boasted that the deal would mean "fabulous sums of money for our industry." The agreement, however, is bound to disturb other nations. Washington had been urging Western industrial nations to work together in arranging deals with the oil producers rather than proceed bilaterally. Moreover, the sale of nuclear technology does not appear to be limited by strict safeguards against Iran's developing atomic weapons. Thus other Persian Gulf countries, which already fear the Shah's growing military power, are certain to be made even more uneasy by the deal...
...action. Basically goodhearted and rather innocent, Angela mistakes his occasional attempts to grab her for youthful high spirits and does not repulse them firmly enough. They form the basis for blackmail in which she is forced to cater humiliatingly to his voyeuristic whims. In true porn-movie style, these proceed up the scale from the mild to the wild, and since Antonelli is an astonishingly lovely creature, her misadventures have an inevitable, shall we say, subcultural interest...
...shock value of the Women, as imagery, has receded. As Philip Larson points out in his catalogue introduction to the show, "The generalized woman-image becomes a 'given' in De Kooning's art, allowing the artist to proceed immediately to the essential business of making a picture." The Women series, as the drawing made circa 1952 immediately makes clear, contained that private neurological signature known as style: the capacious, whipping curves of breast and thigh, the brisk L of the arm responding to the angles of the chair legs, the shallow, vigorous flurry of space and line...