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...figure of the Austral Islands' god A'a, one of Pi casso's favorites. The main value of primitive art to modernism was not formal but quasi-magical. It gave the artist what academism could not: shamanistic power, a sense of the numinous. Muttering the spell, even in macaronic form, still provoked a delicious shudder of possibility...
...spell relief? Last week in Argentina they were spelling it IMF. After seven months of dickering, officials of the Argentine government and the International Monetary Fund reached an arrangement whereby Argentina would get IMF emergency loans to help put its economy on a sounder footing. The IMF aid will enable Argentina to get more loans from private banks so that it can meet interest payments on its $45.5 billion debt...
...lady, and an excellent representative of Penthouse," said 37-year-old Dorothy Maure, a June 1977 centerfold and the 1978-79 Pet of the Year. Now Maure, who uses "Dominique" as her "business name," works for Penthouse's Pet Promotions Department, accompanying Starion around the country and helping her spell difficult English words when she signs autographs...
...economic changes will result in higher prices and open the way for such capitalist troubles as bankruptcy and unemployment. In any case, the success of Hungary's flirtation with capitalist economics will ultimately depend on Moscow: every dip in the East-West temperature hits Hungary like a cold spell. Budapest downplayed East German Leader Erich Honecker's decision not to visit West Germany; instead it emphasizes the possible improvements in superpower relations that might result from the Washington meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...movie Desperate Journey.) Then they turn back to their work, the Haneys calling out sample questions they have researched in advance, and Abbott, perched at the keyboard of a small computer, tinkering with the wording. ("I'm the only one who can chew gum and spell at the same time," he explains.) The choice of questions to be included depends entirely on their creators' reaction to them. "We trust each other's opinions," Chris says. "If everyone laughs, it's a winner. If half the room laughs and the other half...