Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native Ohioan who moved to Toronto in 1929, Davis amassed a fortune estimated at $100 million with a string of manufacturing and transport companies. He once paid $10,000 to have a meteorite that landed near Cleveland crushed and sent to Toronto to cover his driveway with its dust-free gravel and keep visitors from tracking dirt into his living room...
...Freedom Trail, which included benches for footsore travelers bound for such historic sites as Faneuil Hall, the Paul Revere House and the Old North Church. On the middle bench, they proposed to seat a life-sized statue of James Michael Curley, resting himself among the citizenry. The plan gathered dust until last fall when the commission was finally persuaded to spring a paltry $65,000 for James Michael Curley's park and bronze statue, as part of a package of $1.45 million worth of embellishments for Boston. Unanimously, the city council approved the general funding last Sept...
...describes himself, on dust jackets and in introductions, as "devilishly handsome." The description is as fantastic as his novels. Isaac Asimov is a stocky man with a shock of unruly, graying hair, twinkling blue eyes and a grin that turns into a satyr's leer at the sight of an attractive woman. He is a self-acknowledged and thus thoroughly affable egotist. But then, he has a lot to be egotistical about...
...Erman, who directed three episodes. The sets are lavish and the money was intelligently spent. Interiors have accurate period furnishings and products. Such minor locations as a 1930s gas station, where young Alex is barred from the men's room, are as full of vivid details as the Dust Bowl sets in Bonnie and Clyde. At a cost of $1.8 million, ABC built the town of Henning, Tenn., where Haley's family settled at the end of Roots 1, and updated its streets and buildings for each decade. Though the African sequences and World War 1 battles were...
...betrayal by women is recurrent in much of his fiction. The ladies are usually charming and never malicious but they are prime examples in Waugh' natural history of thoughtlessness. Thei egoism, stupidity, conceit and self-regard become the causes for both cruelty and comedy. In A Handful of Dust, for ex ample, Brenda Last cheats on her hus band Tony. He journeys to South Amer ica and ends as the prisoner of an illiterate jungle madman who makes Tony read Dickens aloud to him for the rest of his life. Waugh's most savage literary revenge for past...