Word: took
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dancers," he recalls, "you found beauty in extremely negative things, because there was nothing else." After four years at Yale and a brief period as a police reporter, he committed himself to art. "I had always thought I would be a figure painter," he remembers. "But objects suddenly took on a personal nature. They became parts of the body. Potato chips are ears, ink bottles are nipples...
...presented -no more, no less. That usually means explaining that a program is under discussion, a decision has not yet been made, an event is being planned. The reporters want to know why, what it all means, who said what to whom. Ziegler rarely tells them. Last week it took reporters two full days to extract from him the admission that the President had had a say in the dropping of charges against the Green Berets accused of murder-even though it was obvious that no such decision could have been made without Nixon's approval...
...Pollution). Similar groups have used the same acronym in other cities including Washington, where GASP stands for Greater Alliance to Stop Pollution. In Berkeley, a group called Ecology Action has developed a kind of street theater to dramatize pollution protests. To celebrate "Smog-Free Locomotion Day," the members recently took to pogo sticks, stilts, bicycles, unicycles, roller skates-any and every alternative to the internal combustion engine. Later they symbolically buried an auto engine painted black and splattered with mock blood...
Stirred by the uproar over the series, Christine took another fling at writing. In a letter to The Times, she decried "all these important gentlemen" who would deny her the right to give her side of the scandal. "Perhaps," she added, "I am supposed to have been flushed away down the drain forever." Her choice of imagery seemed...
...part, the CAB was so deeply disappointed that it decided to allow bulkfare merchandising only through Dec. 31. After the CAB took that action, Alitalia acted unilaterally to cut fares...