Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign exchange dealers it was a week to remember-or better still, forget. Not since the currency upheavals of 1973 have the world's money markets been in such turmoil. Once again the source of the trouble was the U.S. dollar. After slipping steadily in value all autumn, last week it went suddenly into a free-fall plunge that sent it skidding to postwar lows on money markets from Tokyo to Frankfurt. When the dust finally settled at week's end, a dollar could buy only 241 Japanese yen, 2.14 deutsche marks or 2.06 Swiss francs. Since January...
...more polarized, with many regular officers moving to the right. After conservative General António Pires Veloso was recently removed as commander of the Northern Military Region, Oporto, Portugal's second largest city, was racked by violent demonstrations and bombings. In scenes reminiscent of the post-revolutionary turmoil, three Communist headquarters were destroyed...
...agency is in turmoil because at least 800 of its employees are to be "terminated." All are members of the CIA's 4,500-man Directorate of Operations, the clandestine branch whose activities, such as trying to overthrow governments and spying on U.S. citizens, have damaged the reputation of the CIA. But only a small minority of agents were involved in such skulduggery, and a far larger part of the directorate's job has been the basic covert gathering of intelligence about potential enemies. Among those being fired are veteran officers with distinguished careers as undercover agents abroad...
...potential undoubtedly is there. Roosevelt's presidency hardly lacked the political conflict and turmoil that gives birth to powerful historical drama. His glib tongue seldom strained to reduce the quirks of everyday life to irresistibly quotable witticisms or the sentiments of his countrymen to stirring rhetoric. Schary's script, however, never allows enough room for the full power of Roosevelt's formidable personality, as portrayed by the ubiquitous Robert Vaughn, to reveal itself. Before a scene can build sufficient dramtic tension, an unsatisfying and petty denouement intrudes. Before the audience can become relaxed with Roosevelt's humorous side, the script...
From that moment, Johns' work, slowly done and irregularly seen, served as a still, enigmatic center to the turmoil it had helped provoke. In Johns, the '50s artist-imagined as "hot," expressive and tragic-was displaced by the didactic painter-hero of the '60s; a man of distances, margins and blocks, detachedly rendering the nuances of ambiguity through the most commonplace objects. But his work has not been seen whole. Now it can be: last week a retrospective of 201 paintings, drawings, multiples and prints by Jasper Johns opened at New York's Whitney Museum. Curator...