Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banks, art galleries, hotels, couturiers, fur and perfume concerns all shared in the gift. "When TIME and LIFE moved to our famous quarter of Paris," said Gallery Owner Hervé Odermatt in his presentation, "we here today were proud to become your neighbors. We come here tonight as friends to tell you that we share your mourning and your grief...
Some models are so famous and sought after that they appear in the works of painter after painter, and their names, like Suzanne Valadon or Kiki of Montparnasse, become almost bywords for an epoch. Their faces and bodies become familiar, delineated as they were by brush after brush, but America's best-known model may well be remembered for one view, and that of the back of her head. Her middle name is the title of one of the all-time bestselling reproductions, Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World...
When the chips are down, expenses up and ratings quavering, go with a proven winner. As applied to TV drama, this calls for an adaptation of the famous movie based on the well-known play derived from the bestselling novel. The practice hardly encourages new playwrights, but last week it at least proved that even a rereretread can sometimes wear wonderfully well...
That prescription was barely a day old when France adopted it last week. Hardly famous for their international cooperation, the French acted chiefly in response to internal pressures-but that will not diminish the result. Concerned over 4½% (and still rising) unemployment, the Gaullist regime took steps to pump $675 million of new spending money into the sluggish French economy. The government raised family allowances (which form a major part of the income of the poor) by 41%, boosted old-age pensions by $20 a year, and granted a 15% cut in personal income tax payments...
...FAMOUS POEMS, R.J. Cook...