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...There were slight changes in the press conference, but we feel that he did not meet the conditions," said the official. "But I must emphasize that these are American and not Israeli conditions...
...neighborhoods of local members of the Board of Overseers, explaining to residents that their friendly neighbor was responsible for a company with investments in South Africa. Last spring, divestment became an agenda item at Board of Overseer meetings; last week, the Overseers approved a report calling for a slight modification in University investment policy toward South Africa...
...when 1986 statistics showed a slight jump in drunk driving fatalities after some years of decline, it became clear that another media campaign was needed, DeJong says. The Center for Health Communication, which specializes in using the media to combat personal health problems, decided to take up the issue...
Diebenkorn, 66, has spent nearly all his working life in California; but the time is long past when he was regarded in New York as a California artist, with the slight condescension that implies. He is, quite simply, one of the best painters America has ever produced. He began as an abstract painter, making organic, landscape-like images in an idiom related to abstract expressionism; one of his inspirations, though in the end an adversary one, ! was Clyfford Still, a colleague at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in the late '40s. Then in 1956 he turned...
...rest of the cast are uniformly good, if occasionally stricken with a slight first-weekend woodenness which should disappear. Steve Peterson, measuring in at somewhere over six feet, uses his own position somewhat nearer to heaven than most to his advantage as the omniscient and condescending Mr. Jordan, but it's hard not to miss James Mason in the role. Patrick O'Kelley provides a deliciously loathsome Tony Abbott, the sleazy lover who tries to drown his millionaire boss and make off with his wife...