Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victim feels nauseated; his skin becomes clammy. It is difficult for him to breathe. Intense pain may start in his chest and radiate down into his left arm; his heart may begin to beat irregularly. Most people know that these are some of the classic symptoms of a heart attack. But many of them do not know that there is only one proper course of action if they are suddenly stricken with these symptoms: call the doctor...
...allowing the artist to proceed immediately to the essential business of making a picture." The Women series, as the drawing made circa 1952 immediately makes clear, contained that private neurological signature known as style: the capacious, whipping curves of breast and thigh, the brisk L of the arm responding to the angles of the chair legs, the shallow, vigorous flurry of space and line around the vestiges of a head. With De Kooning, the energy and propulsion of the line tend to abolish the usual distinctions between painting and drawing; line turns out to be equal to brush mark...
Such financial legerdemain has become a specialty of Lazard and Rohatyn since the late 1960s, when Lazard Chairman Andre Meyer turned pessimistic about the future of conventional investment banking (basically, the underwriting of stock and bond issues) and decided to diversify. Lazard, the American arm of an international firm that also has offices in London and Paris, pushed into investments in oil wells, cattle herds and California vineyards, and organized a "mergers and reorganizations" group-a kind of financial salvage crew-under Rohatyn...
...seminar on writing. It was pitiful. There were all these old people who had been published once, years ago, and never had anything published since. The chairman of the group had been mugged the night before. His face was badly bruised, a patch covered his swollen eye, and his arm was slashed. I wouldn't have found out about his arm if he hadn't lifted up the bandage to show everybody the 27 stitches. I left before the meeting started...
Shortly before his death, Alsop was visited by TIME'S Art White, who reported: "His wife Tish sat near him, jumping up now and then to check that the antibiotic was flowing properly into Stew's arm. We talked about his book. Why did he write it? 'For money mostly. But if you're told you're going to die in a year and a half at the most, you want to leave something of yourself behind.' We talked about his brother Joe, who had given him some 40 transfusions of platelets...