Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that's being gracious. You're meant to be in Spain and all you see walking around are nothing but Mexicans. Pretty silly." Taking a firm stand on his footage, Producer Zanuck snapped: "A lousy thing to say. He doesn't have the right to destroy publicly something he's been paid money for [none for the movie, $15,000 for the 1926 book]." Warming to his Sun, Zanuck added bitterly: "If the picture doesn't satisfy Hemingway, he should read the book again because then the book won't satisfy...
Stepping off a ship in Manhattan, Florentine Artist Pietro Annigoni, whose straightforward canvases are as unminced as his words, quickly ticked off a number of his benighted contemporaries and their works. Of protean Pablo Picasso: "Bad for art; he desires to destroy much of the old tradition." Of the late Henri Matisse: "A good decorator; a good designer for fabrics." Of Salvador Dali, generally regarded as one of the world's best living draftsmen: "A genius of publicity. He can't draw." His jaundiced view of abstract art: "We're watching the end of it!" What...
Because of this situation, Boston has long been a paranoiac sports town with a moody, individualistic idol representative of its frustration. The complex extends not only to the Yanks, but to the New York sportswriters, who are envisioned as engaging in a plot to destroy the few postseason consolations which fans in other cities may possess...
...Provide regional defense commanders with information necessary to intercept and destroy attackers...
...martyr's shroud-the Black Diaries, "200 pages of concentrated erotica," found in his lodgings. If authentic, the diaries proved Casement probably the most industrious sodomite since the days of Heliogabalus. According to Casement's supporters, the diaries were forged, possibly by the British, to destroy Casement's image as a patriot-martyr. The diaries were clearly in his handwriting; Casement's defenders contend implausibly that they were in fact written by someone else but copied-for some obscure reason -in Casement's own hand. Biographer MacColl's conclusion: the diaries were Casement...