Word: slates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Romagna, running on an Independent slate, said the CCA typifies on an attitude of wealthy reformers who feel they are "above the people and know what is best for the community...
...Cambridge politics established groups find it as easy to have fallings-out as do Independents. Although the voters elected a CCA majority to the City Council in 1971 the slate fell apart shortly after it took office in January...
PETER BOGDANOVICH is a director who thinks on his feet. He translates his fiction onto film like it was embossed on slate, exact and crystal clear. As he understated in a recent interview, "I am rather precise, and there is not much room for improvisation once we agree on what the scene is." Each Bogdanovich shot is like an Andrew Wyeth painting, possessing more definition and harder edges than anything real...
muted and elegant gallery spaces, white walls, slate floors, discreetly hushed viewing areas. The branches of the Marlborough group are linked by telex machines, clacking out their information and requests. New York is asking Rome to make hotel reservations for Marlborough's Japanese partners; London reports its day's schedule of auction prices. It is an atmosphere in which bankers and brokers feel instantly at home, removed from the puzzling messiness of the creative life...
...molded plastic papoose is propped on what looks like an unscratchable table top whose resins have been stroked into a semblance of rose wood or walnut. A bowl of wax fruit pledges eternal ripeness. An imitation slate counter neatly divides the family room from the kitchen area. Through an expanse of sliding glass doors, the electric company's pylons can be seen striding across the valley, a step ahead of the subdivisions...