Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus, when the IMF held the second in its series of gold auctions two weeks ago, it got a mere $122.05 an ounce. Two days later, the London price dropped below $120-a point at which traders thought government banks would start buying gold to prop up the price and protect the value of their own stocks. But the central banks stayed out of the market, and when it became obvious that they would not support the price, panic selling...
...Puerto Rico, Ford will be using a carrot and stick. The carrot will be the promise of the sort of support that led the U.S. to make available $2 billion of the $5.3 billion line of credit extended to Britain this month to help prop up the sagging pound, which has so far been successful. The stick will be the clear understanding that such financial support will be forthcoming for governments only on condition that they act swiftly to put their domestic economic houses in order...
...Sunday morning...undone" works at least partly because Lurie surrounds herself with the artifacts of restless desperation. But "Winter Places," the most effective piece in the program, says it all without using a prop. Although it is not clear whether the dancers braced against the cold are peasants laboring in a field or just people plodding through the snow, the sense of oppression here is very real. The work is made of fragments until the isolated images of the dancers become rapidly more systematic and simultaneous. The climax brings a kind of ghoulish march with the eyes of each dancer...
...Moslems carry on their offensive. A weak Maronite state, Syrians fear, might need foreign support-possibly Israeli-and might become a base for anti-Arab activity. The Syrians have infuriated the Moslem coalition by trying to cut off supplies to the National Movement and by seeming to prop up the failing Christian forces...
Melba Moore's latest LP, "This is It" is anything but. The producer, disco king Van McCoy (the creator of last summer's hit, "The Hustle"), tries to prop up Moore's small voice with layers of insistent drumming, strings and background voices. The arrangements lie somewhere between the lushness of Marvin Gaye and the overkill-extravaganza of Barry White, but they are totally unsuited to Moore. She screams and whines a lot (probably to make herself heard), and the end result is unnecessarily strident, not soulful. She should return to the concept of "Peach Melba," released a few months...