Word: boundlessness
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...that lay between Edward Steichen's birth in Luxembourg and his death in Connecticut last week, he had become the most justly famous photographer in America: a patriarch in reputation and appearance, with his grizzled pepper-and-salt beard, his short way with bores and fools and his boundless kindness to younger photographers in whom he recognized signs of talent. His was an enormous life, comparable in range to Picasso's; his portrait subjects spanned modern history, from the actress Eleanora Duse and Auguste Rodin to Eleanor Roosevelt. The projects ran from a laxative advertisement (done before...
...Lawyers in town for the American Bar Association's annual meeting -some 8,000 strong-they conventioneered in determinedly conventional fashion. Black ties came out for a dinner dance complete with Bob Hope ("This would be a great place to get whiplash"). Outthrust hands took advantage of the boundless cordiality of Lewis Powell, former A.B.A. president, and clients might later be told, "I was chatting last summer with Justice Powell...
...Robert Downey, set down in Greaser's Palace, his funniest, most accomplished and most audacious film yet. Downey's lifelong dedication to assaulting the boundaries of good taste still ends too often in dirty jokes that misfire and a kind of varsity show satire. But with its boundless energy and delirious invention, Greaser's Palace is easily the most adventurous American movie so far this year...
Marya Mannes, L.H.D., writer. Her ideas are unequivocal, her feelings passionate, her words candid, her courage boundless...
Endless words have a way of expressing boundless guilt. No one can say whether or not the author's death was intended to be a comment on the loneliness of Japan's elderly-a subject Kawabata had written about with exactitude and tender sympathy. Nonetheless, his suicide focused attention on an alarming fact about Japan's aged citizens: fully one-third of all suicides occur among those 60 and over. Among women over 65, the rate is 45.9 per 100,-000-the highest in the world...