Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vague nostalgia for ancient aesthetic battles only dimly defined through the mists of memory." A case in point. However, Chagall's is a nostalgia that, while occasionally self-conscious (as in the slightly-too-charming. "L'Homme Au Parapluie," a line sketch of a clown leaning on an umbrella), is seldom oppressive. It is a nostalgia of both the whimsical and the heroic variety. Don-Quixote-with-a-palette battling that deadly variety of "Art for Art's sake" that produces wall-sized canvases of black on black that cost a hefty amount of green bills on green...
...ugly disease. A similar risk would be to serve Kool-Aid to cocaine sniffers. Surely the hazard is doubled when the offering is built on the doings of two gerontic specimens who do not even talk dirty or expose any personal equipage more intimate than the inside of an umbrella...
...Zionist," fled Nazi Germany when he was twelve. He earned a Purple Heart as a ski trooper in World War II and graduated from New York's City College before becoming a Reform rabbi. Since 1973 he has been president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, an umbrella group for 750 Reform temples that count a membership...
...prognosis is grim for new talks on restraints. Until now the TGWU's adherence to the contract had discouraged other unions from breaking the wage-restraint agreement. With 1.9 million members, the TGWU is the largest single union within the umbrella-like Trades Union Congress, which ostensibly represents organized labor in Britain. Now other major unions are demanding release from the agreement. At the mine workers' union convention in Tynemouth last week, delegates representing 262,000 members voted to demand raises by Nov. 1. The 1.3 million-member engineers' union has also voted against further wage restraints...
Last year, for example, the P.L.O., its frequently insubordinate members and other guerrilla groups like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who prefer to remain out of the P.L.O. umbrella, took in an estimated $90 million. The bulk of the money -about $70 million-came from Arab governments either in the form of individual donations or as part of the $29 million a year provided jointly by the 20 governments of the Arab League. In addition, the 300,000 or so Palestinians working in the oil states regularly have 5% of their pay withheld by host governments; this...