Word: facet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rulers. Something in human nature cannot resist being told that the richest, most powerful and most beautiful are also the most miserable. The plain fact that this is often not true has never weakened the formula's appeal, and Tryon plays it for whatever it is worth. No facet of his characters' exquisite unhappiness remains unbuffed. "There are better ways to amuse oneself than by being a movie star," Fedora pouts. "Movie star," Willie Marsh snarls. "It's a crock...
...Facet of the universal...
Building upon the University's extensive Judaica collection, the drive's eventual goal is to provide six endowed professorship and scholar programs for the Jewish Studies Center. The six professorships will be in a particular facet of Jewish scholarship and will be worked into existing departments including History, Philosophy, Religion...
...University's fund raising style is designed to tap more financial resources than in the past, by running several separate drives at once. Each one gears its approach to a constituency with a special concern in the development of one facet of the University. Not only is Harvard going overseas to reach untapped and valuable foreign fund resources, but the University has also created programs that will catch the eye of various American ethnic groups, and still others that appeal to the self interest of American and foreign corporations...
Glitter, however, was only one facet of Bowie's early work. The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Alladin Sane were concerned as much with mortality as with kinky sex. Bowie's lyrics reflected a fascination with aging and its immanence. On "Changes" he despairs that "Time may change me/but I can't trace time" and warns "rock'n'rollers" to turn and face the changes for ever they get older. And on "Cracked Actor" he paints a gruesome portrait of superannuated sex--"Forget that I'm fifty cause you just got paid/Suck, baby, suck, give...