Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor exceptions, De Kooning's paint work manages to avoid the rather flaccid, glutinous and mushy quality it assumed in the middle '60s; his gestures occupy a curious middle ground between bravura swipe and pastelly softness, and the pigment oozes suggestively, a matrix of wavering depths. The sum effect is of sensual chaos, but modified with knowing flicks and placements: sprawl as form, luscious and-despite all the turbulence on top -lazily seductive. They are among the most accessible canvases De Kooning has made...
...last visit to Moscow before his death two years ago, he attempted to persuade them to improve Egypt's offensive capability. Nasser returned to Cairo to report that the situation was "a hopeless case." He even used the English words, recalled Sadat: there was nothing in Arabic to sum up his frustration so succinctly...
Those two plays sum up Namath's vital assets on the field: a bazooka arm, a trigger-quick release and an almost supernatural ability to read complex defenses in a matter of microseconds. As Namath explained to TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark last week: "Unless I have some sort of mental lapse, I know what they're doing on the defense every time." In the instruction booklet he is now writing on the art of passing, he gives his older brothers much of the credit for his proficiency: "They taught me a single motion-simply throwing from your...
...extraordinary budget is $32 million, not $310 million. The total Angolan budget is $410 million, not $450 million. The defense budget for the year 1972 was $59 million ($32 million ordinary, $27 million extraordinary), not $150 million. The total budget for Angola in 1971 was $348 million. Of this sum, $50 million was allocated to defense, a figure equal to about 14 per cent, and not 20 per cent, of the total budget...
...part of her job. "A lot of artists' financial situation isn't really good, but they've contributed more than that. It's really taking from a community who couldn't afford it." Portia Harcus said. [Most artists donated their works but some set minimum prices with the total sum received going to support McGovern. A few asked for partial reimbursement, but never more than one-third of the sale price...