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Everyone is trying to wring a bigger return from the tube. NBC sold nearly a dozen one-minute World Series spots to Nixon and Humphrey (at $40,000 per), only to run into the objections of Baseball Commissioner William Eckert, who complained that the fans should not be distracted by national issues during the national game. At week's end, Eckert decided to play ball. After all, officials of the Olympics, that bastion of amateurism, did not quibble when Nixon's camp bought some $500,000 worth of TV time to be aired during the Mexico City games...
Eventually, "getting beyond the plastic aspects" came to mean abjuring the use of paint on canvas altogether. Proclaiming that it was time "to wring the neck of painting," Miró in the early '30s embarked on the production of oddly haunting "poetic objects," which were meant to suggest the improbable juxtaposition of objects that occurs in dreams. Many of his sculptures remind observers of the combines produced by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in the 1950s...
...going to stand around wringing our hands," announced General Manager Edwin Wheeler, "while the unions wring our necks." In anticipation of trouble, windows on the street floor of the News were painted black and covered with wire grilles...
...much of the evening, Jason (Pe ter MacLean) also seems to be Lucifer, ranging between brazen malice and wily seductiveness. He has summoned into session a kind of miniature parliament of seven representative humans, and he wants to wring from them a unanimous vote for fire. Sometimes he uses verbal third-degree tactics, evocative of the rapid-fire non sequiturs gunned at each other by the characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...
...even more deplorable that students who may be less than six months away from bivouac are not allowed to know whether or not they will be conscripted. Johnson has proven that he can keep his secret, even as hundreds of reporters and university officials try to wring it out of him. The time has come for a decision...