Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story concerns the problems of Hugh Person, a likable editor in a New York publishing house: his father's death, marriage to a mean-spirited girl whom he strangles in his sleep, incarceration, finally death in a hotel fire. But the presiding genius of the book is one Baron R, a famous novelist who lives in Switzerland but is published by Hugh's American firm. In fact, it is broadly hinted that Hugh may exist only as a creature...
...glean what the author's latest play, The Tooth of Crime, is basically about. Currently having its U.S. première at the McWhirter Theater in Princeton, N.J., it features a hero named Hoss (Frank Langella), who is a rock star. He is also a kind of robber baron of the Western freeways. He is a "marker" who scores "kills" and controls cities as fiefs. Hoss also works within a system, never deviating from "the Code." His territory is allotted to him by unseen "keepers" who seem to be a cross between Mafia godfathers and Soviet commissars. Hoss...
French experts often politely describe U.S. wine as pleasant but not great. Baron Philippe de Rothschild, millionaire oenophile and vintner (Château Mouton Rothschild), says: "To develop character, great wines must go through hardship. Snow. Drought. Storms. There must be suffering to produce it. In California everything is much too perfect. The soil is too rich. The weather is too good. The wine all comes out industrially uniform, like Coca-Cola." In 1966, the Paris chain store Prisunic put three lines of California wines on sale. Some 60,000 bottles gathered dust and derision for several months before being...
...There is no resistence to the proposal," said Baron Pittenger, associate director of athletics and secretary for the committee. The group is awaiting comment by the athletic program's medical director on possible medical dangers for women players and on Dillon Field House's medical facilities for women's injuries...
According to Baron Pittinger, associate director of Athletics, the money Harvard would receive from the television contract would go toward defraying athletic expenses. However, Pitting said last week that even if ABC does decide to telecast the game the money would not go directly into the coffers of the athletic department...