Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imelda Marcos, a onetime beauty queen, saw the man lunging toward her with a foot-long bolo that he had pulled from his sleeve. She and others on the presentation platform, in a park near the Manila International Airport, grappled with the assailant. Mrs. Marcos was slashed on her arms...
CAVELL STRUCTURES FOR ESSAY around his lesson in reading. His first chapter, "Words deals with the most fundamental aspects of approaching its Walden's meanings, its epic and religious conventions and the intensity of its expression. The second part, "Sentences," explores the way in which Thoreau's words work together...
SUNDAY: Sleeping Beauty. Rudolf Nureyev and Veronica Tennant star in Tchaikovsky's 1890 ballet. Filmed by emmy-winner Norman Campbell at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre. CH. 2. 7 p.m. Color. 90 min.
Scintillating pessimism and imperious disdain have always been Vidal's stock in trade. But in two previously uncollected pieces he demonstrates a humane, empathetic mastery of so-called personal journalism. In "The Death of Mishima," he blends his own acute sense of mortality with a meditation on the significance...
Some day Vladimir Nabokov may succeed in writing a novel that is impossible to review. Certainly Transparent Things, his first new work since Ada, would be easier to review for an audience that had already read it. Like the work of any great writer, the book is best enjoyed when...