Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Questions have been raised about the authenticity of Heymann's original material. For example, Hutton's third husband, Cary Grant, does not remember that the hazy millionaire ever kept a diary. Los Angeles Interior Designer Robert Crowder, a Hutton intimate in her last years, finds it curious that she never mentioned Heymann's interviews. The author's defense: a photo copy of a letter from Hutton referring to meetings between them...
April 2--Returning from spring break, students find work has begun outside the Science Center on the Large "suspended mist" fountain planned earlier in the fall. Workers dig out a large circle and start laying plumbing, while curious passers by block entrance to the Science Center. Meanwhile, the Radcliffe Office of the Arts has anticipated the interest in "community art" in distributing grant money, a large chunk of which has gone to Christo, the avant-garde artist, to visit Harvard and wrap the Science Center...
...media prophet and philosopher." That's the view of the program's creator, Video Virtuoso Nam June Paik, 51, who intends to show television as a "liberating" force, not fraught with the "negative aspects" emphasized by Orwell. To this end, he has enlisted the talents of a curious assortment of the old-and new-wave garde, including Performance Artist Laurie Anderson, 36, Composers John Cage, 71, and Philip Glass, 46, Choreographer Merce Cunningham, 64, Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, 57, Rock Singer Peter Gabriel, 33, and Cellist Charlotte Moorman, 44, once celebrated for her topless playing. Directed by Paik...
Errol Louis' explanation of the vehemently anti-Israel views of Amilcar cabral ("Too Close For Comfort", 12/2/83) is curious indeed. In 1965, according to Louis, Cabral lauded "all that the sons of Palestine" were doing to "liberate their country." Mr. Louis calls this "authentic disgust at Israeli policies towards Palestinians in the occupied territories...
...after the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced the arrival in Britain of the first shipment of Tomahawk cruise missiles. Instead, to put maximum pressure on the West Germans, another negotiating session was scheduled for Nov. 23, the day after the Bundestag vote. Meanwhile, one of the most curious episodes in the history of the two-year-old Geneva talks was unfolding...