Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landscape is ex-President Lyndon Baines Johnson, currently vacationing in an Acapulco villa with his own supplies of bottled water, tapioca, steak and ketchup. When a dinner invitation came from Acapulco's social pinnacle -the white marble mansion of Actress Merle Oberon and her Mexican industrialist husband Bruno Pagliai -L.BJ. said no thanks, he'd drop by afterward. Lady Bird demurred, but Lyndon isn't about to do anything he doesn't want to do these days. "Bird," he said, "you know I'm not goin' to eat anywhere but here...
...political strategist, tour director and carnival barker. It is his exigent assignment to schedule a rally to his candidate's best advantage, drum up enthusiasm, charm local party leaders and, when the occasion demands, get tough with local officials. Traditionally he has been a pugnacious type like Jerry Bruno, who served as point man for both John and Robert Kennedy. In their collaborative book, The Advance Man, Speechwriter Jeff Greenfield describes Bruno: "He is built like a fire hydrant; he has the tact of a pulling guard; when confronted by a local official standing between him and the prospect...
...critics ever earned their bite as honestly as Sargeant. A child prodigy, he conducted a symphony orchestra at age ten, later spent six years as a violinist and horn player with several orchestras under a succession of conductors: Walter Damrosch, Willem Mengelberg, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Arturo Toscanini, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter and Clemens Krauss. Sargeant also composed music for modern dance groups and orchestrated Broadway shows, turned to critical writing at the Brooklyn Eagle, TIME, LIFE, and, in 1949, The New Yorker. Last week, at 68, Sargeant announced that at this season's end he will give up his aisle...
...earth-centered universe of Ptolemy its final blow. After years of observations, he concluded it was the sun?and not the earth?that occupied center stage; the earth, he said, was simply one of several planets that spun around the parent sun. A zealous disciple, the Dominican monk Giordano Bruno, added an even more shattering idea. "Innumerable suns exist," proclaimed Bruno. "Innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven [then known] planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds." Although Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 as a heretic...
Whatever the reason. Bruno jumped out to a 4-3 lead early in the last period. The Big Red finally managed to score with but 53 seconds left on the clock and the game went into overtime...