Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent fashion showing, gaping onlookers were spellbound as a young French p.r. girl in the audience peeled during the course of the show. First to be shed was a navy blue cardigan. Then a sleeveless, striped blue pullover fluttered down, followed by a long-sleeved sweater. Au fond was a sleeveless, almost backless silky knit navy turtleneck -a dazzling outfit clearly designed for energetic dancing at top chic nightclubs as the evening wears...
...lawyer, I have agreed to call this a novel," the author comments in a prefatory note to what, among other things, is a murder story. The "arrested violence" of Torregreca- all the bottled-up, soured passion-has exploded here. In the explosion, Miss Cornelisen's wryly fond exasperation with her mountain folk darkens into something like their own despair...
...limitless possibilities for orchestration. Controlling the placement of the terms ("taking hills, put them together, cutting out a piece of water,") is the aim of providing visual enjoyment. In order to be able to impart pleasure, the picture must be structured, and structured to be decorative. Mr. Feild's fond sensitivity experiments with the swift change in atmosphere characteristic of the Lake District and the effect this tension between light and shadow has on a landscape's face. Predicating this freedom "to play and monkey around" is an ideological commitment to discipline, to being accountable first for a viewer...
Harvard's attack matched its defense in holding up well against a Princeton squad fond of physical contact. Inside Fred Weiss and winger Dan Potts fed Vujovic in the first and second quarters respectively for Harvard's first two goals. Vujovic blasted in another shortly before the half...
...thoroughly nostalgic scene. As a young journalist who had actively opposed Hitler, Brandt fled to Norway in 1933, became a citizen and later fought the Nazi invaders as a Norwegian major. He will deliver his acceptance speech in Norwegian-"My first language," as he is fond of saying. At his side will be his Norwegian-born wife...