Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fortnight, the first-floor flat in the working-class suburb of Montreal North had been under tense surveillance. Only when police were completely satisfied with the accuracy of their tips and leads did they swing into action. They routed the residents out of a four-block area. Hundreds of policemen, Mounties and troops in battle dress were rushed in to encircle the stark apartment building at 10945 Des Recollets Avenue. The electricity was cut off. A nearby school was closed so that it could be used as a helicopter pad. Finally, two hours after the siege began, a lead pipe...
Daemon of History. However eccentric Gertrude Stein's theories, the flat she shared with Leo at 27 Rue de Fleurus was a salon through which the best artists and writers in France passed each Saturday. Throughout their ten years together at Rue deFleurus, Leo and Gertrude kept buying. One of their first major purchases was Young Girl with Basket of Flowers, a big blue-period Picasso nude for which they paid 150 francs ($29). Soon Gertrude owned more early Picassos than anybody else in France. Picasso dashed off a small Homage to Gertrude, 1909, a parody of Baroque ceiling...
...clarity of the social conflict makes all the little details spring alive. The stylized stark setting puts the barnyard in front of the house, puts the in-laws and the aristocratic lover into a flat beige and gold of costume, complexion, hair-proud wigs. Against them all, Dandin's shaggy authenticity strikes out like a bear baited by spaniels. When at last Dandin finds the house empty at night and locks out his wife, the creaking stock situation leaps up with delight while Dandin exults...
...weeks and the fourth time this year, U.S. banks lowered their prime rate. The minimum annual interest charge to the most creditworthy corporate customers dropped from 7½ to 7%. The reduction was made not because of a new surge in the money supply-indeed, the supply remained fairly flat in October and November-but because of a weakness in demand for loans. Although the normal growth of the economy would call for a $1 billion increase in bank lending during the summer and fall, bank loans have actually declined by $3.5 billion since June. "Business-loan demand has caved...
...coordinated enough to play football or put the shot. But he lifted weights and always tried so very hard. Everyone wished him well. He enlisted. . . the Marines. He had just returned from the DMZ. The transformation was electric. With his black mustache, he looked like Clark Gable, broad chest, flat waist, deep penetrating calm blue eyes that seemed bottomless. Sideburns, deep unhesitating voice. Marvin was a presence of energy, a star...