Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he had hidden under the mask of a fencer. The Polish weekly newspaper Literatura ran a savage caricature representing Pawlowski as a sinister spy whose fencing thrust is parried and his saber broken as he tries to gather military secrets. Such attacks on Pawlowski in the official press suggest that he may still be alive and that Polish leaders aim to prepare public opinion for a formal trial-possibly by a military court. If Pawlowski were convicted of treason, which carries the death penalty, a great saber will indeed have been broken...
...vast interpretive powers from the performers. His Circles, for example, has no bar lines. Berio does indicate some points at which the singer, harpist, and percussionists are expected to arrive at the same time, and notes of specified pitch which are written at varying distances from each other to suggest duration. But within that skeletal visual framework, the performers must create the piece. There are also areas, set off in boxes, within which the performers are to improvise freely on certain pitches...
...Club, the Sea Catch and the Palm. He is often accompanied by Mrs. Mary Gore Dean, a wealthy widow whose family operates restaurants and a hotel in the capital. He is drinking much less than the fifth a day he consumed at the height of the Watergate crisis. Associates suggest two reasons for Mitchell's relatively good spirits: 1) Despite Nixon's earlier efforts to get Mitchell to take full blame for Watergate, he has never turned against his former boss and remains on good terms with Nixon and Nixon's wealthy friends; 2) he is confident...
...business community. Says Tire Maker Leopoldo Pirelli: "While one regrets that Carli is leaving, his successors represent the best solution." For his part, Carli vows that he will not follow the customary practice of lingering in the bank's corridors as an honorary governor. Instead, some observers suggest, he may become a politician...
...Fourth of July this year, the Georges V Hotel in Pari sent champagne (Prince de Venoge, '65 to the rooms of all American guests. For the first time, at the Fête du Louvre, programs for the Paris Opera Ballet wer available in English. Some European hoteliers suggest to guests that they can have a picnic lunch à la Manet for fa less than a bistro meal à la carte. Fo their part, American tourists seem considerably more subdued than the caricature Midwesterner abroad who demanded his bill in "real money." "They argue over checks less often," says...