Word: puzzlements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Consequently, Royko confesses puzzlement that Daley's most consistently loyal constituency is in the black ghetto wards. Their loyalty, though, may be due to the diligence of Democratic precinct workers, who remind the voters that the continued receipt of welfare checks is somehow inextricable from the franchise. Then, being thorough in their work, says Royko, they accompany the voter into the polling booth to make sure he does not forget...
Painter Riley's development spans a ten-year arc from the aggressiveness of her early black-and-white images to the imperiled quiet of such new stripe paintings as Apprehend, 1970. First reactions to her work may run from puzzlement to nausea. But Riley has always denied she means to hurt the eyes, aiming only for "a stimulating, an active, a vibrating pleasure." But not relaxation -the pleasure is existential, a tuning of the consciousness. In a picture like Cataract III, the eye has no resting place. The viewer scans the inexorably waving lines with something akin to mounting...
...from Where? Cambodia remains a puzzlement not only to Americans but to all concerned; one Soviet diplomat complained last week: "Who in hell knows what's really going on in Cambodia?" In neighboring Laos, the hard-pressed government forces regained some lost ground, providing themselves with a temporary psychological lift, but the strong Communist offensive showed no signs of collapse. Across the border in South Viet Nam, the fresh wave of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong attacks sent U.S. battle deaths sharply up, probably to the worst level in eight months...