Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retired barber from Coney Island: "All Italians look up to him. He's a wonderful father-he always tells his son Anthony to make sure his coat is buttoned whenever he goes outside." Natale Marcone, president of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, which sponsored the black-tie affair: "Women in the neighborhood kiss his hand when he passes. He gives them his umbrella in the rain. Just the way he shakes your hand you know he's a great...
...semigloss house paint he favored; he painted scenes on as many of these cardboard backs as he could get his hands on, and mounted them on the outside walls of his house. In his artistic development, Darling went through a fairly long Cezanne period and had an affair with early Grandma Moses. In his short Renoir stage, he managed to get the soft wispy effect in his tree leaves by dabbing on latex paint with an ordinary shaving brush. When he was under the Turner influence, he found he could create raging waves by running a dry thumb across Sherwin...
With the situation as volatile as it is, the Unionist government-incredibly -has gone right ahead with its plans for "Ulster '71," a summer-long festival to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ulster's founding. Unless things cool considerably by May, the affair could well earn the nickname suggested recently by Belfast wits: "Explo...
Through a letter to his lawyers the Black Prince, who claims to be a poor farmer though he owns a 365-room castle and a 5,000-acre estate, blasted the affair as a "fabrication." His men were merely planning demonstrations against the upcoming visit of Yugoslav President Tito, he said, and anyone who insisted otherwise would be sued...
...Sanders Theatre affair President Pusey urges us not to be "victimized by obfusacation" but to await quietly the results of corrective actions set in motion by officers of the University. He speaks too late. We have already been victimized by the obfuscation of those who have defined this affair as a stand-or-fall test of the principle of academic freedom and have begun to file criminal charges against persons present...