Word: recessions
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When political, the art world resembles a castle populated by Coney Island ghosts. Fluorescent skeletons jiggle their pasteboard bones in each recess; the cellars resound with prerecorded mutters, wails and injunctions to silence; entrepreneurs tap their way down the corridors, prodding each moulding in the hope that a panel will fly open, revealing a lost Titian, an undocumented Goya, or a Japanese gingko-nut tycoon with an open checkbook. Collectors do not want the taxman to know how much they paid for what, and neither do dealers. The availability of a painting may be the occasion for as much conspiratorial...
...clearest sign of progress was Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger's decision to recess his talks with North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho and fly to Florida to consult with Richard Nixon at his Key Biscayne home. Though Kissinger was not due to arrive until after midnight, Nixon's aides let it be known that the President would wait up to hear what Kissinger had to report. Before he left Paris, Kissinger described the week's sessions with the North Vietnamese as "very extensive and useful negotiations." At Orly Airport, he declared that...
...doesn't have to persuade me to take it. As I suck in the gas, cooler than the air in the living room. I feel giddy but not dizzy, and I laugh a little. It feels like the moment before I passed out in the grass during recess in fourth grade, When Egghead sat on my back and I breathed in and out hard forty times as hard as I could. I think about explaining how it feels, but figure it's too involved for people I don't really know yet. By now, everyone has a balloon...
...Congress and with explanation, if at all, only after the fact. He has vetoed congressional appropriations, which is his right. But he has also ignored Congress when it over rode his veto, refusing to spend the money appropriated-which is not his clear right. He has used a brief recess of Congress to "pocket veto" bills, extending a power intended only as an end-of-session action. Even as he centralizes more powers of the Executive Branch within his White House staff, he has drawn a cloak of Executive privilege around his men, refusing to allow key decision makers...
Shortly afterwards, Albert M. Sacks dean of the Law School, announced that he had granted a request to allow SDS to use Law School facilities prior to recess. The scuttlebutt was that Bok had asked Sacks to do so to avoid possible by SDS. He had had to circumvent Dunlop to achieve that...