Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest worry is a relentless blitz of Government agencies, led by the Federal Trade Commission, to purge extravagant claims or outright deception in advertising and put more straight information into ads. Under its aggressive chairman, Lawyer Miles Kirkpatrick, the FTC last week hurled its latest bombshell. In an unprecedented action, it proposed that the nation's four largest cereal makers be broken up into smaller companies, partly on grounds that their lavish ad campaigns enabled them to keep out competitors and inflate prices. Kellogg, General Mills, General Foods and Quaker Oats were also accused by the agency of falsely...
...second-generation Abstract Expressionist like Pearlstein, Leslie turned to figure painting in the early '60s. His technique as a draftsman is formidable, sharing Pearlstein's plain speech and relentless grip. Your Kindness is an idiosyncratic companion piece to David's famous Death of Marat, with Leslie's wife Constance West dressed as Charlotte Corday and holding the letter that got her access to Marat's bathroom. It is an exhilarating picture, with its firm amplitude of shapes and stripes. Leslie thinks of his work in partly ethical terms. "I think," he reflects, "it was Balzac...
...agreement will add $700 million to the revenues collected this year by the six Persian Gulf producers, on top of a huge increase already scheduled during 1972 under the oil firms' present contract with OPEC members. Still not satisfied, the oil countries continued their relentless search for new reserves of green. In Geneva, they barely had time to celebrate their victory before they went back into negotiations to discuss their second goal-partial ownership, or "participation" in foreign companies' production facilities in their countries...
John Hawkes has a rather special vision of things, compulsively original and relentless in its own terms. A lesser writer would be hard pressed to find words adequate for its expression; but his readers well know that Hawkes has shown himself far and away the most accomplished literary craftsman today writing in English...
...describe Nubar Gulbenkian, the high-loving millionaire who died last week at 75 in Cannes, where he was being treated for a heart ailment. Resembling a Mephistophelean Santa Clans with his portly form, thick black eyebrows, fluffy white beard and twinkling eyes, Gulbenkian spent his life in a relentless chase after pleasure. "I believe in comfort. I enjoy everything I do," he said...