Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have opened up a Pandora's box with your comments on the rich and colorful expressions of the South. The one sticking in my mind since my Army duty in Georgia is: "You're as nervous as a long-tailed cat at a rocking-chair convention...
...substantial part of the endowment for the chair Kissinger occupied before he left the University in 1969 has been allocated to other faculty members, Wilson said...
...major universities. He gets calls from broadcasters, reporters, politicians and even mothers-in-law who seek his expert assessments. Barber is deep into an academic study of this election and its participants, and he is pledged to restraint until it is over. Sometimes perched in an old-fashioned barbershop chair he has in his office, he turns away pleadings to rate the men by his scale. But he thinks every voter should do his own analysis...
...taxing form was the Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraeten, who around 1655 constructed a perspectyfkas, or perspective cabinet, a whole miniature Dutch interior to be viewed through eyeholes. So complete is the illusion that one cannot guess, without taking the lid off the box, that these stable objects- the chair, the dog, the tile floor - that seem to have the clearness and density of the real world are painted flat, a jumble of skewed angles involuntarily assembled...
...spontaneous combustion," Comden says of their composition. Green revealed a little more of the reworking that went into songs that play effortlessly now. "Sometimes you have a great tune. Lenny had this theme: da da dee, da da dum, -- Green picks the tune out on his chair--"and for a long time it was known in New York living rooms, very much to our embarrassment, as da da dee, da da dum. And then we found the phrase: 'Just in time...