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...investigators later confirmed that $75,000 was delivered that very night to the lawyer for E. Howard Hunt Jr., one of those convicted of staging the breakin. Also, the jurors were convinced that the President's statement, "It would be wrong, that's for sure," did not refer to the payment of bribes. In context, the statement appears to refer to the granting of clemency ?and to have been made out of political, not moral, considerations...
...inspect the appliances. There were some interesting things, but there were also a number of things which seemed purely for show and of no use. Once I'd commented on this I had swallowed the hook and was caught in a lengthy conversation with Nixon which newsmen would refer to for years to come as characterizing Soviet-American relations...
...figure, Gris resorted to its most masklike aspect: that of Pierrot, whose sad face and bright costume were among Picasso's favorite motifs too. But when Picasso dealt with clowns and circus performers, there was a pathos behind the image that extended back to Watteau. The Picassos also refer to the late 19th century vision of the artist as an exalted clown and are tinged with autobiography. In Gris, it is solely the interlocking shapes, checkerboard lozenge cloth and elliptical buttons that count...
...Johns and Rauschenberg became instant household names, not counting their swarm of epigones. "What we have with the pop artists," wrote the English critic Lawrence Alloway, "is a situation in which success has been combined with misunderstanding." He had coined the term pop art, in England in 1957, "to refer approvingly to the product of the mass media." Appropriately, Alloway, whose fascination with mass culture as anthropology long predates the movement that he christened, has now organized a pop retrospective at Manhattan's Whitney Museum...
...said the trustees could not make immediate decisions, but that they would refer the demands to appropriate committees...