Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first variety, Schapiro's study of the "Apples of Cezanne" is fascinating. Schapiro notes the central place given to apples in Cezanne's still lifes and explores the source of his choice of objects. Schapiro leads the reader through Cezanne's early paintings and writings to point out Cezannes's association of fruit and nudity and his particular use of apples to indicate "displaced erotic interest...
...readiness to forestall any North Korean adventures. The U.S. must use its diplomatic and economic leverage to act as an honest broker with the current rulers of South Korea, pressing for the release of political prisoners, an end to the "thought police" role taken on by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), and the establishment of free elections as soon as possible...
...only by birth. From the time he left his home on Hungary's central plains, his only known belief was that summed up by the aphorism ''Living well is the best revenge.'' It was something he had obviously read up on in the books he devoured as a child, feeding the fantasy life that he turned into elegant reality. He took his two talented younger brothers along with him on his journey. Zoltan, saturnine and hypochondriacal, never left home without his oxygen inhaler and his health foods ("Vair is my kelp?" he once demanded...
...Yawkey is as central a figure in the history of the Sox as any of the players in the book; he is shown cajoling with Ted Williams, Reggie Smith, and everyone loved him. After he bought the franchise in 1933, Yawkey renovated Fenway Park and became the constant in Red Sox lore, and surrounding him has been heartbreak, hope and craziness, good...
TOMORROW BOSTON voters will make a familiar choice. Kevin H. White has been a mayor for 12 years and he's asking for four more. And for the third time, State Sen. Joseph F. Timilty is challenging the incumbent. The central question is who possesses the skills and intelligence to lead the city in the 1980s...