Word: webs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only the primacy of the rule of law on which the American system rests but the presidency of Nixon stood challenged, plunging the U.S. into a grave governmental crisis. Fittingly, it was the American legal system, which had trained so many of the malefactors caught in the Watergate web, that came to the rescue...
...obverse of the coin would bear the motto "All Are Part of the Web of Life," and would be circled about by a chain of earth, water, sky, microbe and man. The verso of the coin would carry the motto "There Is No Free Lunch," over a design of crossed bicycles rampant upon a field of Franklin stoves...
Isolating those industries in the tangled web of business interrelationships is no easy job, and economists cannot yet sort out in any detail which industries stand to suffer how much. It is possible, however, to group some industries into four rough classes: those already hurt, those highly vulnerable, those with mixed prospects and a few that are actually likely to profit. A rundown...
...book continues with examples of the everyday scenes that hardly anyone stops to notice: a defacing web of electric and telephone wires across California's lovely Owens Valley, an empty parking lot behind a blank-walled movie theater in Paramus, N.J., an ugly carwash building in Lorain, Ohio. Each photo is as carefully composed as a painting by Edward Hopper, and disappointment clearly shows in each. Turning to the great achievements of the past, Plowden finds little consolation. The splendid ferries and mighty iron bridges that he loves to photograph are obsolescent and vanishing. In Lordville, N.Y., he shows...
Dobecker plunges into Anita's sumptuous web of sexual intrigue and petty corruptions. He plays at black magic, proves adept at dirty political infighting, and manages to enjoy an exhilarating lowlife, but in the end still convincingly comes through for the old-fashioned virtues of a straight marriage...