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...sir," was all I said. I walked out with fire in my eyes. I unloaded on both Dean and Magruder. "What's going...
...sir." I smiled and left to tell Howard Hunt to call off "Pissers for McGovern...
...Sir John Wilson strides into his office outside London, his hands at waist level, his fingers spread like antennae. Easing into a chair, he turns to a visitor and launches into a discussion of his life's work. Through his Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Wilson in the past three decades has helped establish blindness centers in over 80 nations. These centers are designed primarily to help those of the world's 42 million blind whose sight can be restored -and to prevent the diseases that still cause...
...lack of space, the Met so far has been unable to show more than one-third of its rich 19th century holdings. Now, with so much floor area at his disposal, Sir John Pope-Hennessy, chief of the Met's Department of European Paintings, has arranged a survey of the century's progress that is unmatched anywhere. The central space is devoted to the century's culminating stylesimpressionism and postimpressionism. With 13 flanking galleries, he could give one to Courbet alone, three to Degas, others to Millet and the Barbizon School. Besides a solid representation...
...careful to preserve a spontaneous sound that just skirts being primitive. The groups rock a little harder than their forebears too. "We were the first band which wanted to combine punk and reggae," says Jerry ("General Dankey") Dammers of the Specials, "because we liked them both." Bass Player Horace ("Sir Horace Gentleman") Panter adds, "Both were rebel music." Notes Jerry: "Humble beginnings, what...