Word: labyrinth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Biographers tend to get lost in the labyrinth of Pound's poetry, politics and character. But in Ezra Pound: The Last Rower, Biographer C. David Heymann has attacked the problems with a special advantage. Under the 1966 Freedom of Information Act, he was the first scholar to study the massive FBI files on the Ezra Pound treason case. The result is the most harshly realistic portrait of the poet so far produced, a sickening, touching study of a man of great gifts gone wrong...
...companion Francesco, deserters from the Italian army, are captured by the Germans and taken to a concentration camp, the greens and browns of the lush German countryside give way abruptly to stark grey and black. The camera pans chains of shell-shocked, pajama-clad prisoners, herded through this labyrinth of death by expressionless guards with drawn sub-machine guns and attack dogs. With Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries punctuating its grisly movements, the camera catches sight of the grotesque forms of the hanged above the melee, pausing to observe the ironic inscription from Auschwitz which overlooks the courtyard...
That leaves Marlborough and Lloyd. But the New York gallery is only a small branch of the Liechtenstein-based financial labyrinth that Frank Lloyd (TIME, June 25, 1973) has built up over the years, and its American assets would probably not satisfy the judgment. In setting the contempt fine at $3.3 million, Surrogate Midonick said that Lloyd could pay it off by returning the paintings he sold to European investors and dealers in defiance of the court's 1972 injunction. But, says Harrow gloomily, this effort to make Marlborough disgorge may not work: the Rothkos involved are now worth...
...backs any proposal that helps farmers, believes that this one would only encourage them to produce for Government guarantees. Its effect, says Assistant Secretary Clayton Yeutter, would be to take the nation "back into the dark ages of farm policy." Indeed, for four decades Government policy consisted of a labyrinth of props under income that expanded until it cost taxpayers $4 billion in 1972. By overhauling the old system, the Nixon Administration trimmed the price tag to about $500 million last year. Unless Congress can now override a presidential veto of the 1975 bill-which seems unlikely-the cost...
...National Gallery has installed it all magnificently-the staff spent a year at it, studied scale drawings of the objects, and remodeled the whole ground floor of the museum to make a rewarding labyrinth of 34 sections, corresponding to the 34 excavation sites...