Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next to it, angled his view of Charles Hinman's loft so that its slanting half-opened window and rolls of drawing paper tilted against the wall suggest the dynamic diagonals that characterize the shaped canvases that Hinman produces. By simplifying textures and using a dreamily radiant color scheme, Nesbitt adds his personality to that of the resident. Says he, in what may be fighting words to some: "A photographer is not able to bring interpretation or create any formal invention. A painter can and does...
...Impossible Mission Leader Jim Phelps, enters a phone booth, warehouse or parked car, finds a hidden tape recorder, and turns it on. "Good morning, Mr. Phelps..." it begins, and then outlines the task: recover something crucial that has been stolen or prevent the supervillains from achieving some dastardly scheme. At the end of the recording the tape destroys itself in a pouf of smoke. The fact that a phone call, meeting or even a note left on a park bench would be less conspicuous hardly bothers M:I addicts...
Under the Pentagon scheme, seven special task forces of Regular Army troops - more than 15,000 men - have been assigned as an elite service to cope with urban disruption. The riot forces will be dispatched only if the Na tional Guard - which has been undergoing special riot training since its woefully inept performances in Newark and Detroit last summer - cannot...
...legislators rebelled against Rockefeller for excellent election-year reasons. Public opinion, expressed in letters, telegrams, phone calls and editorials, overwhelmingly supported Lindsay's basic argument that an illegal public strike cannot be tolerated lest more strikes be encouraged and that Rockefeller's takeover scheme violated the tradition of home rule. Lindsay was not exactly blameless. He had not made adequate advance preparations for the strike, and his abrupt demand that Rockefeller mobilize the National Guard to collect the garbage presented serious problems.-But the Lindsay position, based on sound principle, had the public relations virtue of offering dramatic...
...tackling the steel-mill project, Li's steady-as-you-go scheme was challenged by bureaucrats who wanted to rush the country into steel by buying a packaged mill promising production in three years. Li's backers successfully argued that such a plant would cost more than its long-range worth. His next problem is to raise money for his own kind of plant. Plans call for three-fifths to come from private sources (foreign and domestic), two-fifths from the government. But this should not stop Li, who has a well-earned reputation for achieving success...