Word: ac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...molar rather embarrass him. Bribed by British intelligence (running short of certified spies, understandably) with the promise of a Cord Le Baron, Niven flies off to run interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers he encounters, none surpass Françoise Dorléac, a wry, loose-limbed French beauty who wafts the spirit of high comedy through a role that would hardly seem worth the bother if a lesser actress played...
...into vogue. But one group-the 19th century French Salon painters, including such luminaries as Cabanel, Meissonier, Bonnat, Baudry and Rochegrosse-has seemed beyond redemption. Until last week when, that is, half in jest, Paris' avant-garde Galerie Breteau dragged out 20 paintings by one of the most ac claimed academicians and popular artists of his time, a man whose very name was an epithet to the impressionists: William-Adolphe Bouguereau...
...often so long that it stretched beyond the penitent's life expectancy, and the indulgence granted for some special act of piety enabled him to cut back on the sentence. Later on, indulgences came to be conceived as release from some or all of the ac cumulated punishment time in Purgatory; the church could draw on its "treasury of merit," an increment gathered from Christ and the saints. The plenary indulgence, canceling all temporal punishment in or out of Purgatory due for a forgiven sin, was deemed by St. Thomas Aquinas to be sufficient to enable a soul...
...such actors come to Trinity Square Playhouse? They seem to feel that they have the freedom to explore their art to its full extent, there, rather than just become names. As soon as ac actor appears on Broadway, he is never again hired as an actor, but as a personality--the personality he made successful upon the stage...
...bolsa down through their families, collected such lucrative commis sions on currency-exchange transactions that they have had little incentive to push stock purchases. Long confined to only two hours a day, the trading sessions usually took place amid such bedlam that little serious business was ever ac complished. In recent years, taxes of up to 85% on dividends and Brazil's runaway inflation have made the stock market less and less attractive to investors. Only three months ago, daily trading volume on the Rio exchange fell to practically zero for many leading companies. Then came a sudden...