Word: taking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defense, energy and the threat of recession. Back home Thatcher's own popularity has suffered as inflation has climbed to 17%, with the prospect of worse to come in 1980. Nonetheless, she seems to relish the challenge, openly acknowledging that her rigorously conservative policies will not begin to take effect until...
...reform roused the ire of either the faculty or the students or both. Under the law, for example, all professors, who have long reigned supreme in their own "chairs" of tenure, will be grouped in departments administered by a pool of professors and two elected students. The law also takes aim at another hallowed institution on the other side: the "eternal" students, who by the old rules, could take-and fail -the same exam three times a year without being drummed out. Now, to the wrath of the 60,000-member student union (E.F.E.E.), exams are being held only twice...
Though all this takes much time to set up, the talk is at least drivel-free in a way the pompous Star Trek is not, and interest is sustained by Peter Ellenshaw's marvelous effects and designs, particularly of Schell's ship; in its amusing mixture of the plush and the technological, it recalls Captain Nemo's submarine in Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But it is when the visitors have to start fighting their way out of Schell's clutches that the picture begins to take...
...often have unexpected treasures on their premises. Before sitting down to lunch at their country estate with the Earl and Countess of Verulam, Christie's Oriental ceramics director, Sir John Figgess, asked his host "if there was a cloakroom [bathroom] handy." There were two cloakrooms, allowed Verulam: "You take this one and I'll take that one." In the John that Sir John took, he found a mid-14th century underglaze copper red-and-white wine jar. The Ming jar sold-at Christie's, naturally...
...recessions and depressions and inflations, the smart ones tend to liquidate stocks, bonds and real estate and thus have all the more cash to invest in other fields. Like art. Given the scar city of beautiful things and the insatiable demand for them, the sales will undoubtedly continue to take the bread and make the circuses. The Romans would love it. - Michael Demarest