Word: projects
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...state legislature passed the Bartley-Fox Law, as it is known, in April 1975, with the intent that it be used in the prosecution of gun-related crimes. But James Beha, who directed the project for the center, said yesterday that the law was only used in one-quarter of all gun-related prosecutions in the past year and attributed this to the strictness of the Massachusetts firearm regulations...
Jones said the project first came to his attention in early spring following demonstrations which "rang the alarm." He said the MIT Office of Research had approved the program when it began two years ago but it received about 12 proposals a day and thus did not have time to look deeply into it. He said that relations with Taiwan were different at that time...
Buffalo Bill and the Indians. After seeing his bomb, it's not difficult to see why Dino de Laurentis pulled Altman off the Ragtime project. Altman is best at presenting little stories, but he has this awful tendency to cast himself as the grand philosophe. In Buffalo Bill, the oracle has come down from the mountain to tell us that we have lied to ourselves about our history and that we mistreated the Indians. How interesting. At the Cheri III, in Boston...
...Apologies. The Washingtonians, by contrast, have pressed ahead. The project has already cost $50 million, and it will require at least $12 million more. By Washington-style accounting, that works out to be little more than half of a B-l bomber or a few miles of interstate highway. Dean Sayre, who often uses his carved Gothic stone pulpit to promote social justice, makes no apologies for the expense. "You're not competing with the poor for a dollar," he has said. "You're building something in order to use it. The instrument and the using...
...course, the Department of the Interior's first act of art patronage. The preservation of Yellowstone National Park was largely caused by the public impact of the paintings of Thomas Moran, who a century ago worked at Yellowstone with the department's surveyors. As a project, America 1976 is heavy with reminiscence of the 19th century, when the language of sublimity was formed from the raw material of landscape by such artists as Moran, Frederick Church and Albert Bierstadt and the indomitable photographers (Eadweard Muybridge, Timothy O'Sullivan, William Jackson and the rest) who lugged their brassbound...