Word: aficionados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...host, Los Angeles Investor Z. Wayne Griffin, was not quite so diffident. "I've known Bob since he was four years old," said Griffin, "and as an old Haldeman aficionado, I simply wanted to welcome home a favorite son. The public doesn't realize how much Bob sacrificed in government service." The guests at the private party in Perino's restaurant (menu: roast beef and apple cake à la mode) represented a well-heeled selection of the Southern California Establishment, including onetime Haldeman associates former Communications Director Herbert G. Klein and former HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch...
...mind that your paintings don't last very long," a worried aficionado will...
Lacrosse, as one aficionado puts it, is "basketball played on a football field with a club and a slow whistle." The ten-man teams are constantly on the move, passing and catching the hard rubber ball in the triangular nylon net at the end of their sticks. The game puts a premium on speed, deception and the kind of guts it takes to run a gauntlet of flying sticks and wing the ball at the 6-ft.-sq. goal at 100 m.p.h...
...Government; he denied it, and is now in protective custody. TIME learned that two whose testimony has been important to the Government?though neither is the chief informant?are a brother and a sister named Joseph Joynt and Patricia Chanel. Mrs. Chanel, described by one movement activist as "an aficionado of the Jesuits," was questioned by FBI agents at her Silver Spring, Md., home and was promised immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony. Whatever she told them may not be wholly credible. She reportedly had a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized in the middle of 1970; her psychiatrist...
...range is almost two octaves, and her appeal spans all generations. Glenn Gould, the pianist and a Clark aficionado, says that she is "in many ways the complete synthesis of the American teen-ager's scramble from the parental nest." Of course, at an increasingly matronly 37, she will have to go beyond such material as Downtown and I Know a Place. These days she is trying to emulate her idol, Piaf. "She didn't just sing," recalls Petula. "She pulled her insides out. She got involved about people going crazy, about death...