Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Satirist Murray Schisgal pokes at the poses and spoofs the self-seriousness of a society and theater weaned on analysis and fed by Freud...
...apparently had nothing to do with last week's revolt. Instead, it was caused by the same thing that killed the other Premiers-the tribal rivalry between the towering Watutsis and the shorter but far more numerous Bahutus, who for centuries have served the Watutsis as virtual slaves. Fed up, the Bahutus now demand a republic-like the one their fellow tribesmen achieved in neighboring Rwanda after overthrowing a Watutsi king in 1959. But Burundi's Watutsis are as determined as ever to continue in the ascendancy they now enjoy. Not surprisingly, the Mwami's men dealt...
...French, the last living participant in the all-but-forgotten plot described the fateful night of Dec. 29, 1916. He invited Rasputin to a midnight snack in the basement of his Moika palace, the prince told the court. There, while accomplices played Yankee Doodle on the phonograph upstairs, Youssoupoff fed Rasputin cakes and wine sprinkled with cyanide "sufficient to kill several men instantly." Rasputin merely "coughed," looked "drunk," and asked the prince to sing. Appalled, and in no mood for warbling, the prince ran upstairs to consult his friends and get a gun from the Grand Duke Dmitri. Creeping downstairs...
...death, De Staël's reputation has become well fed and well housed His work is backed by a market that will bid as much as $68,000 for a 3-ft. by 5-ft. oil. His paintings hang in the Tate the Los Angeles County Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the museums of modern art in Paris and New York. A traveling retrospective of 104 works, gathered by five museums, is currently in Boston...
...North Carolina University in Greensboro; of injuries suffered when he apparently "lunged into the path" of a passing automobile; near Chapel Hill, N.C. An amusing satirist, he took deadly aim at academic pretension in his novel Pictures from an Institution and at the "goldplated age" of "spoon-fed culture" in A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. But his poetry (The Woman at the Washington Zoo) revealed an altogether different world, "commonplace and solitary," filled with terrified, lost souls finding refuge from loneliness only in Proustian reminiscence, fantasy and oblivion...