Word: absently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More serious -- and moving -- tributes were offered to two absent friends. One afternoon a single spotlight illuminated the Palais stage -- the aura left vacant by Francois Truffaut, who died at 52 last October -- and slowly two dozen figures gathered in the shadows. Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and a host of old colleagues were there to wreathe the great director's memory in their affection and gratitude...
...week she dominated the second by her absence. The socialite left the country last win ter, purportedly to visit her mother in Ireland, and has not been seen since. Judge Grande ruled that the Rhode Island prosecutors failed to mount the sufficiently "diligent" search required before testimony from an absent witness can be used. Rhode Island State Police Detective John F. Reise told the court that he had attempted to locate Isles through New York magazine Theater Critic John Simon, with whom she is said to maintain a close relationship. Simon, Reise testified, reported that Isles "had no intention...
Dubuffet's interest in the rudimentary and the inchoate meant that conventional subjects were dissected into their most ignoble components. His excremental landscapes and turnip-men, set down in meandering lines and harrowed clods of pigment, were not ordinary -- they were frighteningly banal. "It is where the picturesque is absent," he remarked, "that I am in a state of constant amazement...
...seat was finally awarded to Democrat Frank McCloskey by the House last week. After a careful recount monitored by two Democrats and one Republican, McCloskey finished in front by four votes out of 234,055 counted. The House then quashed a Republican move for a new election. While the absent Republicans held a news conference on the steps of the Capitol, Democrats remained behind to give McCloskey a standing ovation and witness his swearing...
...believable accounts of "life after college" in the novel-of-Harvard genre--chief among them Anton Myrer '44s. The Last Convertible--are almost absent from the late sections of Segal's magnum opus. As far a comparisons go, let it be said that Rona Jaffe '51 has a lock on the 25th Reunion trash novel category of this ilk, and Class Reunion wasn't anywhere near as pretentious as The Class, Even Love Story, while making no attempts at profundity (except, of course, in its one infamous and unfortunate definition of love), has its place in this venerable category...