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...markets opened, the price of gold shot from about $96 per oz. to about $109 in Zurich, $110 in London and an astonishing $124 in Paris. The rise was accompanied by a decline in the price of the dollar. For example, the greenback dropped about 2? against the British pound, which rose...
...Among them: the British pound, Italian lira and Japanese yen, which float independently, and the German mark, Dutch guilder and French and Belgian francs, which are supposed to rise and fall in unison against the dollar...
...sets out to eliminate the London critics who have mocked and vilified him during his career. He kills each of them in a quite elaborate and grisly fashion, every slaughter based on a scenario provided by the Bard: one hapless critic, for example, has his heart cut out (the pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice), another is stabbed to death on the Ides of March. Worst torture of all, perhaps, is that the poor struggling wretches must listen to Lionheart declaim passages from the pertinent play before he kills them. Besides Price, who is at his most enjoyably...
...POUND is dead. Picasso is dead. Brakhage is alive and healthy in Hunt Hall tonight. He will show films made within the past two years including The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes, The Riddle of Lumen, The Myth of Phos, and his Sexual Meditation series. An involving, often brilliant conversationalist, Brakhage successfully bridges the experiential gap between his films and their audiences when he verbalizes those personal meanings hiding between the layers of abstraction...
...reckless waves of sheer spontaneity, the Beat Generation couldn't arrest its own self-destruction. But before their movement became the subject matter for ambitious "new journalists," the Beat Poets had already shaken the literary establishment by rejecting an academic formalism rooted in the poetry of Eliot and Pound. They replaced this sterile stuff with a free-wheeling experiential American poetic idiom inspired by the more cautious William Carlos Williams. Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," with its Whitmanesque catalogues of the poet's own undeniably hellish experience, became a banner around which the new American poets rallied...