Word: famous
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...read and thoroughly enjoyed your article on Mr. Football, Jim Brown. One thing does worry me though. If the famous TIME "jinx" holds true, my favorite football player will either sustain a serious injury in the near future or will be the "goat" in the N.F.L. championship game. If any of these things do come to pass, consider my subscription canceled...
...reader who suffers, but then maybe she really wants to see clothes in awkward poses in bizarre settings. On the other hand, it's my selfish purpose to see my clothes looking beautiful; it's the photographer's selfish purpose to be famous; it's the art director's selfish purpose to have a striking, stylish page; it's the magazine's selfish purpose to sell ads and issues. With all these selfishnesses, you just come up with one big crumbier...
...most famous of Prince Franz Josef II's 1,500 oils is Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra del Bend, a painting that is strikingly evocative of the Louvre's Mona Lisa. It is the only recognized Leonardo not yet on a museum wall. Such may not long be the case. In a front-page story, the New York Times last week reported that Ginevra* had caught the eye of the prince of collectors. Said the headline: $6 MILLION...
...editing the anthology, and some associates have been reading every old issue of the Advocate and choosing material for the past year. Selections were made with three ideas in mind: to present the best literary works, to present the early writing of men who later became famous, and to present work which was representative of the style of certain eras...
...Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open," said the Supreme Court in 1964. In that famous decision (New York Times Co. v. Sullivan), the court ruled that a public official cannot collect libel damages even for false criticism of his official conduct unless he proves "actual malice." But who is a public official? The court did not say. As a result, lower courts have since extended the Times doctrine to reach "officials" ranging from a candidate for Congress to the law partner of a mayoral candidate...