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Taste, decorum and an attitudinizing kind of augustness creep in to replace the former intensity, with the unforeseen result that Balthus seems more given to pastiche now than he was 40 years ago. In a painting like Japanese Figure with a Black Mirror, 1967-76, the way he quotes the artificial perspective of Edo prints looks almost complacent, despite the wit ty sense of sexual packaging conveyed by the white obi round the girl's naked waist...
...result, few people were rushing to write Arafat off. Said a Western analyst in Beirut: "Assad has the guns, but Arafat has the hearts and minds of the Palestinians." That is his weapon, and it may yet, in some unforeseen way, rescue him once again. -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by David Halevy/Jerusalem and William Stewart/ Beirut, with other bureaus
Because architecture schools often attempt to display in their own buildings striking examples of the most advanced architecture of the time, experts say, these buildings are more prone than most to unforeseen difficulties...
Lorenzo claims that Continental's wage rates were more than just burdensome. His high-cost airline simply could not compete with the low-cost carriers. An unforeseen consequence of deregulation had given the new, nonunion airlines an important cost advantage over the old ones, and Lorenzo believed that he had no choice but to take drastic steps to reduce Continental's costs. Says he: "Some very, very brutal things have happened to this industry. I have the job of trying to steer through some stormy waters." But if Continental is successful in breaking its union contracts through bankruptcy...
...first primaries. This strategy will live or die in the first three months, when Jackson must prove to wary Hispanics, women's groups, progressive labor groups, and others that this rainbow coalition is the key to future political power. If it succeeds, against all the known and unforeseen obstacles. The surge of grassroots citizens groups of the '70s may consolidate in the '80s into new local and national coalitions, capable of a class-based realignment of American politics...