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Less Friendly. Business no doubt will go on-but perhaps in a somewhat less friendly way. Unquestionably the wrench in the alliance is more severe than at any point since 1956, when Britain and France, along with Israel, invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal. The U.S., working through the United Nations General Assembly, forced them to retreat. The partnership eventually recovered from that wound, but it took a long time. The convalescence this time may be even longer. The Europeans are far stronger economically than they were in 1956, and the U.S. is, relatively speaking, far weaker...
...studentship in fin de siecle Barcelona, into the Blue and Rose periods, with their dystrophied and consumptive clowns, absinthe addicts and acrobats. By 1907, Picasso's combativeness and his goading sense (which never entirely left him) of being up against history's wall resulted in the wrench of imagination that provoked Cubism and provides an arbitrary point of departure for all that is most convulsive in Picasso's art and modernism generally: Les Demoiselles d'A vignon. His eclecticism -another of the virtuoso's traits-produced incessant raids on other styles, from Pompeian murals, 17th...
...against the passivity of the spectator, as Brecht struggled in his time: because this passivity is not an aesthetic necessity as some people would have us believe (a spectator is always a spectator). It is linked to the system of representation in class society. Our goal is not to wrench the spectator out of his chair, as some accuse us (so that they can dismiss us as ultra-leftists); it is simply a question of arousing mental activity and the critical faculty. --the Dziga-Vertov group in Cahiers de Cinema, August...
...standing start in 6½ seconds. To achieve that flash of glory, two Chicago pipefitters labored five hours a night, putting together the right combination of engine, transmission and body. "Your car not only has to run fast, it has to look good," says the Hud's wrench (chief mechanic), Tom Jordan, 33. "If your $1,500 paint gets chipped, that's the breaks. You make the spectators respect you for a good-looking...
Hours later, the huge amphitheater, which once resounded to the agonies of the 1968 Democratic Convention, is quiet except for the occasional clang of a dropped wrench or the grunts of car owners as they push their treasures up the ramp into their trailers. An old porter pushes a broom through the thick litter of the International Speed Custom Cycle Auto Show...