Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lights, at $50,000; a Winslow Homer, Adirondack Catch, at $37,500; and Charles Burchfield's Black Iron, which brought $65,000. That same week, another and very fine Homer-Gallows Island (Bermuda)-also went for $65,000. And the price of every sort of "Americana" -that tract of once largely ignored painting, sculpture and craft that stretches from colonial America to the 20th century-is inexorably spiraling: it affects every type of object from embroidered samplers to John Singleton Copleys, from decoy ducks and Windsor chairs to Hudson River School landscapes, and especially for fine antique furniture...
...visited Trotsky and sometimes assisted him with secretarial work. Although the real Jacson never admitted to any motive for the murder, he is widely believed to have been a Stalinist agent. In the film, however, Losey makes a sonorous attempt to turn the murder into an oblique existential tract and the assassin into a schizoid avenging angel. Like characters in such previous and more estimable Losey films as The Servant and Accident, Jacson is a scarred and desperate man, searching a psychic void for some small sign of life. When he whispers to his police captor, hoarsely but triumphantly...
...Congress will accomplish similar and much needed congressional overhauls remains to be seen, but the first segment of the study, published last week as a $1.95 paperback titled Who Runs Congress (Bantam Books), bears a distressing resemblance in its tone and quality of research to Phillips' tirade. The tract revels in recounting every instance of bribery, influence peddling and even criminality in the congressional history books, but it is neither explicit nor persuasive in presenting its view of the problems that short-circuit congressional progress...
...course, the Sharp case has features worth writing about even if no state officials had been involved. For example, Sharp gave the Jesuit Fathers of Houston a tract of land in his residential community (named Sharpstown, of course) for a new preparatory school and made Father Michael Kennelly a director of the Sharpstown Bank. For this he was granted an audience with the Pope. Then Sharp borrowed $6 million from the Jesuits, none of which he ever repaid, and the Jesuits eventually went bankrupt. In addition, he used Kennelly as a middle-man for distributing some very dubious gifts...
...Pacific rim with what Miss Fonda called "a political vaudeville," a jaunty traveling cabaret intended to stand in marked contrast to Bob Hope's annual earsplitting chorus of Jingo Bells. This documentary is a record of the trip as well as a kind of pamphlet on celluloid, a tract against the war in Indochina and against the brutalizing and dehumanizing effects of military service...