Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard-earned money of the western people. Miles Ignotus is quite explicit in this respect, including not only the Arabs, but other Third World peoples as well: "military dictators and megalomaniacal kings of OPEC," "narrow self-appointed ruling groups (elections have become a rarity in Asia and Africa) fond of shiny black cars and numbered Swiss accounts," not to mention the by-now infamous "OPEC extortionists" and "Arab blackmailers...
...Fond, canny, breakaway funny, Paul Mazursky's Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a comic reminiscence about salad days around Washington Square, the tough lessons and small victories that mark the end of growing up. What is best about Mazursky's work (Alex in Wonderland, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto) comes from his affectionate kind of satire, always clear-eyed and almost never derisive. Mazursky is a good spirit, and this is perhaps the most closely autobiographical of all his movies. Like Larry, he was a scuffling New York actor (he showed up as one of the leads...
Colleagues say Korda is fond of role playing. After the opening of the movie The Man Who Would Be King, friends found him playing the sergeant major. Once he strode into a sales convention in full fox-hunting gear, blowing a hunting horn and proceeding to present a book on the Maryland hunting set. Says one associate: "It was not humor. It was Korda's chance to display his sense of costume and class...
Robert G. Gardner '48, chairman of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department, is fond of describing Vis Stud as a "small department with limited resources." The serious extent of these limitations was made aware to its faculty members Wednesday, as they voted, 9-1, to support a plan of fundamental reorganization in the department including opening admission to all undergraduates...
...aggressive defensive line and blitzing linebackers pressured Bateman and lightened the secondary's burden. Tommy Joyce, named ABC Defensive Player of the Game, slowed Brown's running game, while sophomores Bob Baggot and Steve Kaseta rolled down Bateman when he rolled out for a pass as he was so fond of doing...