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Overall, the NFL has toppled the field goal kicker as the offensive ruler of the game only to enthrown the punter as defensive field marshall...
...impeachment. The grounds for this action were unblinkingly harsh: Nixon's "deliberate treason" in the conduct of both foreign and domestic policy. Almost as bad, the diatribe went on, "Mr. Nixon has spent more money-and has spent it more wastefully-than any other President, monarch, dictator or ruler of any kind in all human history...
...Wizard of Oz. Words fail me. If you know the right ones, on the other hand, you can trade them in for a couple of ruby slippers. Under what guise did Ozma, the legitimate ruler whose place the Wizard took, pass the majority of her childhood? And a pun referring to what conveyance so offended even the long-suffering Jack Pumpkinhead that he momentarily stopped smiling? This weekend and next, 8 p.m. at Dunster House (also 11 on Saturday...
...death in 1965, Avery made his last woodcut. In it, for the first time, he acknowledges the end as well as the continuum of life. For "Birds and the Sea" includes something none of his other landscapes have--the boundary of a horizon line. It is a simple line--ruler straight, no special tone or twist to it. Anyone could draw a line like that. But Milton Avery never did before, and he startles and shocks us with its finality. It is a tribute to Avery's exquisite skill that the most basic element in art can, in his hand...
...enormous second-floor office, a cruciform chamber in green and silver, in the Niavaran Palace, the royal residence in Teheran. The highly active 54-year-old monarch sighed frequently as he talked, his voice sometimes dropping to a whisper, as though betraying the burden he feels as the absolute ruler of Iran's 34 million people. For more than a decade he has concentrated on using his country's vast oil riches to turn Iran into a modern state. With arms purchased primarily from the U.S., the Shah's country now constitutes the most powerful force...