Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious bachelor, Barghoorn liked nothing better than to hole up for a ten-hour stretch in his top-floor office at Yale's Hall of Graduate Studies. There, amidst bundles of old laundry and discarded razor blades, he meticulously pored over books, clippings and back issues of Pravda. Russian-speaking Barghoorn knew his subject firsthand. From 1942 until 1947 he was a press attache at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. To avoid trouble, Barghoorn deliberately did not carry a camera during five trips to Russia between 1956 and last March, when he arranged for scholarly exchanges or gathered information...
...stays in character amidst the powdered elegance of the Persian Room. "I've been in nightclubs before," she rasps at the customers, "but I've always been on the other side of the highballs. No holds barred. Anything I miss hasn't been invented yet." But then the great klaxon voice takes over. It sounds 26, or whatever the most magic laryngeal age is, and she hardly needs the frightened little mike she conceals in her brassière. Those big metallic syllables, perfectly enunciated, come forth like bullets and mow down the crowd. "I must admit...
...British-educated aristocrat to his manicured fingernails. He is a millionaire by inheritance, married into one of Iran's greatest landowning families, and lives like a prince (which he is) in a palace on the slopes overlooking Teheran. Padding about in a silk dressing gown or British tweeds amidst his huge flower gardens, Olympic-sized swimming pool, stables and servants, Alam seems wildly unlikely as the administrator of revolutionary social reforms aimed at liberating the masses from centuries of feudalism. He is not even sure that he likes the job. "I am lazy by birth," he admits cheerfully...
...podium. In last year's Three Studies for a Crucifixion, a motif he has been studying since 1931, Bacon painted a triptych more than 14 ft. wide with enigmatic figures and bony carcasses looming in red oval rooms. The central panel contains a kneaded corpse lying in bed amidst a welter of congealed gore. There is no more overt Christian symbolism than that every man can find himself martyred meaninglessly. And the source of Bacon's idea is no mystery: two widely publicized sex murders took place in London shortly before he painted...
...film seems about to capture this elusive poetic mood: Jay and Rufus at the picture show laughing at Charlie Chaplin, then moseying home after dark; a visit to Rufus' great-great-grandmother, edentate, gibbering, gaunt, propped up in her wheelchair like a gnarled old angel of death; Rufus amidst mystifying adult rituals at the funeral parlor where he goes to see his father. But too often a good beginning comes to naught. Scenes shot with a camera placed no more than knee-high to a grasshopper can supply kidsight without insight, and Michael Kearney, the eight-year-old newcomer...