Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lets slip that Sevens' wife Elsie frequently did not like his poetry, and then he never mentions her in relation to her husband's work again. Nor does he ever try to sketch in any of the psychological tensions of Stevens' married life. He lets slip that Stevens was fond of candied violets, that the director of the Louvre doubted Stevens' taste in paintings, but such details are ahnost always involuntarily offered. They are pinpoints rather than panoramas...
...unlikely dictator, a donnish, reclusive man with sharp eyes and a high-pitched voice who shunned publicity, made few speeches or public appearances, and rarely traveled outside his own country. "One cannot entertain the crowd and govern them all at the same time," he was fond of saying. "The state does not pay me to lead a social life." He preferred to cloister himself with his books and papers in his high-walled home behind the National Assembly in Lisbon. He never married...
...housewife mother. "They aren't stage parents." Her TV and radio commercials (she has done 45 in the last 16 months) bring in enough money so that she can take college courses and wait for roles "with a little meat and a little thought." She is especially fond of her current one, the lead in off-Broadway's charming The Last Sweet Days of Isaac...
Patrons at Manhattan's Shoe Biz at Bendel are as fond of the red patent chunky-toed, chunky-heeled style as they are of the white version; it has a platform as high as its heel and is wrapped over and over with what appear to be Ace bandages. Not all monsters are sandals, of course. Some are sturdy leather brogues with heels extending beyond the back of the shoe; others have tongues that take their licks at the ankles, leaving even the slimmest tarsus looking like a giant redwood...
...Cirencester, England. In return for his throne, the government granted him an income-tax-free stipend of $240,000 a year and, though that was scarcely enough to maintain five palaces and 200 elephants, the Maharajah continued to support the string of polo ponies of which he was so fond...