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Word: englishman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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From early childhood, Englishman Greg Bright has gone out of his way to get lost-in department stores, city streets, the countryside. "I've always very much dug the feeling of being lost. I've always been turned on by it." Since he was six, Bright has been turning himself on by designing mazes or labyrinths, those intricate networks of paths and chambers from which, once inside, the most mettlesome visitor may find it all but impossible to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bright, the Maze Man | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

...Rice, the owner of the Copley, said to me, 'You crazy Englishman, why do you want a steady day off?'" he says. "I says, Mr. Rice, I came to America and I'm a little disappointed. I don't have any family here. Mr. Rice, I like women. I can't even make an appointment with a prostitute because I don't have a steady day off.' And we got that...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Small Revolution in the Kitchens | 2/28/1975 | See Source »

Stonehouse lived quietly in Melbourne, listening to Bach and Beethoven tapes and sunbathing at his residential club. But the presence of the tall distinguished stranger was noticed by police already on the lookout for another missing Englishman, Lord Lucan, 39, who disappeared after the November slaying of his children's nanny (TIME, Nov. 25). Stonehouse was arrested on Christmas Eve. The next day he pleaded before a Melbourne magistrate to be allowed to remain in Australia and start a new life; the court is expected to rule on his case this week. "I only wish," Stonehouse said, "that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Stonehouse Surfaces | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...their range-from the earliest imitative watercolors of picturesque scenery, through the imitations of Claude, the French landscapist, the seascapes, the Italian scenes, and so on to the Beethoven-like grandeur of the last landscapes-they form the best pos sible introduction to this coarsely explicit but mysterious Englishman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: England's Greatest Romantic | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...triumph of scholarship and taste, but especially it is a triumph for Turner and, in a way, for his country; for it now seems not only that Turner was the greatest artist England ever produced, but that the most profound romantic artist in 19th century Europe was an Englishman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: England's Greatest Romantic | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

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