Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some define politics as the art of the possible, which I find unsatisfactory. Indeed, if the October War is anything to go by, politics may be defined, rather, as the art of the impossible! Which is the correct definition...
...Boston, hundreds of artists and performers labored to prepare free, outdoor art shows and concerts for a New Year's Eve celebration. Like a scene from a 19th century print, Bostonians by the tens of thousands will wend their candlelit way past sculpture and singers, gathering on the Common for fireworks and communal cheer. In Beverly Hills, Calif, 2,000 people had been expected at a modest tree-lighting ceremony; 15,000 showed up. The once tattered social fabric is being rewoven. Across the country, charities report sharp increases in donations of all kinds. In Portland, Ore., the United...
Rogers, who was born in Hattiesburg, Miss., began as a $40-a-week runner, handling practically every job before he became art director at the Trahey Advertising Agency. He bought the Trahey firm in 1974, renamed it Peter Rogers Associates, and has since increased billings by 300%. But he intends to stay small. Says he: "We make just as much money, and still have control over the work...
...Murray, died in 1915, while finishing up the letter T, 13 years before the last of the Zs (zymurgy and zynder) went into print. But in 35 years of leadership, Murray laid the plan for the dictionary and edited half of it. Murray more than anyone else established the art of historical lexicography: defining the language by its various usages through time...
...daughter become a child-woman of the '60s who whelps children out of wedlock. One of Eliza's former co-workers retreats to a women's commune, the other to hustling in Las Vegas. There is a rather bizarre episode reminiscent of those murky French "art movies" of the '50s: Eliza has an affair with the beautiful boy who caused her husband's suicide. She also has to di gest the fact that her half sister, too, was in love with...