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Word: alla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students who found him aware of and sympathetic to their special concerns and anxieties in this vast, busy and often cold University. We loved him-but did not always dare say it to that master of understatement. He embodied the highest values of American liberalism, just as his wife Alla, with her warm good spirits and her wonderful way of telling stories, embodies all that is best in Russian culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Fine Man Lost | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...theme of this year's Biennale-that vast, sprawling international conspectus of current art that opens at irregular intervals in the public gardens of Venice and is one of the city's main tourist attractions-is "Dalla Natura All'Arte, Dall'Arte Alla Natura" (from nature to art, from art to nature). Appropriately, then, the star of the 1978 press week was not an artist but an animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: It's Biennale Time Again | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

Because the parents' organization took no action, Galbraith can now only refer his charges to the board of trustees of Wellesley, which has already affirmed support for the administration in the controversy, Alla O'Brian, a Wellesley College spokesman, said yesterday...

Author: By Gregory M. Lewis, | Title: Wellesley Parents Inactive on Charge | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...balcony or lay out his clean shirts and underwear in the morning. Peppino is gripped by the delusion that his wife is having an affair with a family friend, Luigi (Ron Holgate), but he is only a platonic admirer. The real culprit? Are you ready? A plate of macaroni alla siciliana. Three plates, to be exact. Peppino gobbled them down at his daughter-in-law's house and had the effrontery to praise her cooking effusively, to Rosa's mortification. After some mutual Neapolitan hysterics, the pair heals this terrible rift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Pasta, Everyone? | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

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