Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father figure as any lad could desire. Billy is his real name, Bathgate an alias he has invented, lifted from a street, known for its open-air markets, a few blocks from his birthplace in the Bronx. Billy's education in the criminal life is completed before his 16th birthday...
...16th Annual Assembly for Life also marked the 16th anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. The rally was sponsored by the Massachusetts Citizens for Life...
Pakaluk cited the 16th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, expressing optimism that it would soon be overturned. But she said the antiabortion movement will continue even if the high court decides abortion is illegal...
...struggling to complete his biography of his friend Francis Cornish and trying to fill a mysterious gap in his subject's life between 1937 and 1945; readers who remember What's Bred in the Bone already know the bizarre information Darcourt will discover, including the existence of a 16th century triptych with unmistakable ties to the 20th. And a potential blackmailer turns up, hoping to hold several characters responsible for deeds that occurred way back in The Rebel Angels...
...Animal and Plant Studies of the Renaissance by Fritz Koreny (New York Graphic Society; 278 pages; $75), compares such renowned works of botanical and zoological observation as Hare and The Large Piece of Turf with their imitations. The result is a scholarly view of authentication problems in 16th century German art and a wondrous glimpse into the beginnings of scientific representation...