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...property, mail fraud, wire fraud, false statements and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Whether any of those crimes can be proved against anyone remains to be seen. As rumors of impending indictments swept the beleaguered Pentagon, Carlucci took a calm view. He advised, "Let's not jump off the cliff before we find out what we're talking about here." That may take a while, but the timing could be awkward. If the Justice Department sticks to its announced deadline, the indictments could come shortly before the November election. For the Administration, that would be an ill wind indeed...
...early '60s was graffiti. Flattened scrawly figures with sticks for limbs and blobs for heads, much influenced by Jean Dubuffet, populate a whole set of images from 1960 to 1963 -- Doll Boy, The Fourth Love Painting, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (a valentine to the pop singer Cliff Richard, on whom the artist had an unrequited crush), We Two Boys Together Clinging (a line from Walt Whitman, who, like Gandhi, was one of the heroes of Hockney's youth...
...like Wile E. Coyote in the Road Runner cartoons. Road Runner suddenly veers off right before a cliff as Wile E. Coyote is chasing after him. Wile E. Coyote runs off the cliff and keeps running until suddenly he looks down and the moment of truth arrives. He runs in place, suspended in the air for a few seconds and then he crashes. This is the feeling I was getting from SDS in its later stages...
Suspense is a rare commodity in the politics of Communist Eastern Europe, but last week Hungary provided a genuine cliff-hanger. When 986 participants at the country's first national party conference in 31 years gathered in Budapest's trade-union meeting hall, word went out that the official agenda, bearing the imprimatur of Party Leader Janos Kadar, had been quietly shelved. As the conference began, the key question was whether Kadar, 75, might also be shelved. In his opening speech, Kadar himself acknowledged the need to "rejuvenate" the party leadership...
...were so totally clueless at the beginning," says Nellen, a native of Sea Cliff...