Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marchesa are two archrival museums, Washington's National Gallery and New York City's Metropolitan. The National is represented by its director, Andrew Foster -- young, rich, dashing and secretly a CIA agent. The Met's champion is Olivia Cartwright, whose mentor is the omniscient and fabulously wealthy Neapolitan dwarf Count Nerone (a good Velasquezian touch, since the artist painted a fair number of valuable dwarfs). Rivalry soon leads to attraction, which soon turns into love. Before the hammer finally comes down, love has led to Soviet intrigue, data bases, haute cuisine and unintentionally hilarious dialogue. Says the smitten Olivia...
...abuse, the junior-high-school student knew what she had to do. Several hours later she searched her house, collecting the incriminating evidence. "The talk she heard the night before," said a lawman, "was the straw that broke the camel's back." Deanna's parents were charged with one count each of coke possession. Their daughter was placed in a shelter for abused and abandoned children...
...first number was Beethoven's Egmont Overture, and the quartet that played it -- Marsha Hinch, Myrna Paulis, Darlene Ferris and Mary Stokes -- played it without a hitch. There was no metronome in evidence, but you could get the count by watching their chins and brows. Next Marsha and Myrna played Greensleeves. Then Mary Rathman, a seriously accomplished pianist and mother of eight children, played a Debussy prelude and two Chopin etudes. Her hands flew. Lois Crabtree and Chris McClue played a rhapsody, Heaven Came Down and Glory Filled My Soul. Charlie Hinch had a rough start on The Oak Grove...
...miles offshore and 15 ft. to 140 ft. down the steeply sloping bottom lie the remains, partly enveloped in coral, of the Boussole and the Astrolabe, the flagship and companion frigate of one of France's greatest 18th century navigators, Count Jean Francois de la Perouse. Louis XVI had dispatched the aristocrat to the Pacific in 1785, hoping that his discoveries would rival those of British Explorer Captain James Cook. As Louis was led to the guillotine eight years later, he supposedly inquired, "Has there been any news of La Perouse?" Each morning 20 divers from a multinational team...
...quota, will most certainly ignore any forthcoming NMFS restrictions. These ships, say the fishermen, may have already killed more than 20,000 dolphins in 1986. On only one point is there agreement: observers must be placed on all U.S. tuna ships as soon as possible to establish a true count...