Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Republican ascendancy in the Senate shocked many Democrats who had become complacent in their control of Congress, and certainly it adds color to the visions of "America Swinging to the Right" that are multiplying on magazine covers. But it is as much a tribute to the tactical skill of New Right organizers who have mobilized the support of fundamentalists and other right-leaning, formerly apolitical groups through the use of national computer address banks. The answer for 1984 is simple: the left must organize itself to counteract this new force, using similar computerized-mailing tactics if necessary...
...Republican control of the White House and Senate makes attendance at this convention necessary because that party traditionally tends to ignore the welfare of cities, Rich McKinnon, assistant to the city council, said yesterday...
...Peking. He has an international reputation and has traveled widely (he went to New York last spring for a revival at Columbia University of his 1940 play Peking Man). So he brings a sophisticated perspective to his assessment of artistic freedom in China. "There is still too much control exercised over films," says Tsao. The 200 new plays performed or published each year fare considerably better. Says he: "There is hardly any interference from the top these days. It is up to each company to decide its own repertory...
Such paintings suggest the strength of the Neue Sachlichkeit tendency to paint a world beyond the spectator's control - not Leger's confidence in technology, but glimpses of an airless place, always the city, with looming buildings, threatening, gray and crystalline, where the exact divisions between things seem to mirror the divisions and conflicts of class that concerned many of the painters. In particular, they obsessed Grosz. One of his friends called him "a Bolshevik in painting, nauseated by painting." This was not quite true, for although Grosz once declared that compared with the practical tasks of political...
DIED. Victor Galindez, 31, World Boxing Association light-heavyweight champion between 1974 and 1979; of injuries received during an auto race, when a racing car spun out of control and hit him and another driver (who was also killed), as the two were leaving their disabled vehicle; in 25 de Mayo, Argentina. A ferocious fighter who successfully defended his title ten times, the Argentine-born Galindez took up auto racing earlier this year after suffering two successive defeats in the ring and going into retirement...