Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Age of Uncertainty, Galbraith...
...remote candidate to become New York's crime czar is Galante's former boss, Joseph Bonanno. His age (71) works against his ambitions. So did the murder in February of Frank ("Bomp") Bompensiero, who was Bonanno's chief ally on the West Coast?and an FBI informer. Bomp was one of the 20 people who have been executed over the past two years by professional hit men armed with silencer-equipped .22-cal. pistols (TIME, April...
...giant new wrinkle in billboard advertising? An acid-age hex sign? No indeed. The Bunyanesque bovine is part of a statewide barn-painting project, Dairyland Graphics, dreamed up by the Wisconsin Arts Board under a $32,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Its purpose: to bring art to the countryside-and also bring forth the creative talents of local teenagers. "We wanted to give rural children a chance to use their imaginations," says Arts Board Executive Director Jerrold Rouby, "the same way urban mural programs have got ghetto kids involved in art." In two years some...
Although his manner is easy, Gardner has not written a slight book. He succeeds in counteracting the popular supposition that the medieval period was excessively religious and dull. As he demonstrates, the age was worldly, tumultuous and as bloody as could be wished. And Chaucer, who was born in about 1340, spent his life at the center of the commotion...
...Audiences have been humming the enduring, enchanting score ever since the opening night of 26 years ago. This production dwarfs recent musicals in its opulence. The dances, originally choreographed by Jerome Robbins, are drolly captivating. Constance Towers' Anna is singularly lovely in voice, mood and bearing. To an age that is brazenly explicit about sex, The King and I brings the veiled, beguiling reticence of old-fashioned romance...