Word: fa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Michael Rockefeller wing for primitive art. The $7.1 million Lehman pavilion was merely the first phase. But it is certainly the most spectacular, as well as controversial. Seen from Central Park, it is dominated by a 67-ft.-high glass pyramid built onto the museum's original Victorian façade, with an atrium below, two levels of gray limestone ambulatories, and (sealed off from daylight on the main floor) so-called period rooms in which the greatest paintings hang...
...Within minutes, traffic snarled to a halt as drivers hopped out of trucks and autos to join in street dances. Firecrackers exploded everywhere, and bells rang joyously. Jubilant factory workers and office employees, teachers and pupils poured into the center of town. From a huge poster high on the façade of the Central Information Hall, overlooking the confluence of the city's main thoroughfares, Ho Chi Minn, clad in the green fatigues of the Viet Nam People's Army, smiled benignly on the joyful crowds. The big letters on the poster read: YOU ARE ALWAYS MARCHING...
...body was transported, with six of Faisal's brothers serving as pallbearers, to a graveyard on the outskirts of Riyadh where commoners as well as royalty are buried. The body was laid to rest in an unmarked grave not far from that of Faisal's fa ther, Ibn Saud, founder of the kingdom...
...known as Ibn Saud, roared out of what is now Kuwait to recover power. Ibn Saud gradually regained the kingship in rolling battles that involved shifting tribal loyalties and, eventually, British intrigue. Finally, in 1925 a force of 45,000 Bedouins led by Faisal - then his father's fa vorite lieutenant - recaptured Mecca by driving out Sharif Hussein, great-grandfather of the present King of Jordan...
...working in Godfather II was a lark, working on it was not. Strasberg applied himself to the role according to his own strictest principles of introspection. "In no way did I try to give a sense of the theatrical elements of the Mafia. So I tried to create a façade of not showing emotion, the sense of a man for whom all things were business." Strasberg also carried elements of Roth over into his own life-a basic article of Strasbergian faith-to flesh out the character...