Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to be all over it and you've got a thing about control must be nightmarish. Yet from all reports, the BARBRA STREISAND-JAMES BROLIN nuptials seemed to be merry enough. The most anticipated vows since J.F.K. Jr. first clamped eyes on Carolyn Bessette took place in the formal living room of the humble home the bride maintains in Malibu. The media were kept at bay with a phalanx of security guards, tents and enormous speakers that first blasted rain-forest noises so they couldn't hear the ceremony, followed by heavy-metal music (White Zombie did the honors...
...estate planning at BankBoston, advises clients to act by Oct. 1. That's when he expects a tax bill in Congress, and, he notes, "typically, changes like these are effective the date of the proposal." So don't delay on the assumption that you will have time after a formal proposal surfaces...
Lecturer on Education Judith B. McLaughlin said that, although Freedman will have no formal responsibilities, he will also interact with students and faculty...
...such thing as an interesting drunk--ever. Do not drink more than two glasses of wine, three at the most. After more than that, you think you are funnier and more charming than you are. I once sat next to New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan at a formal dinner and watched him consume three double Scotches, five glasses of red wine and three glasses of port, after which he got up and gave the after-dinner speech. The 6-ft. 4-in. Senator swayed above me as if in a high wind and delivered a swoopingly post-Modernist oration...
Burne-Jones was an amazingly proficient craftsman, a one-man guild, fecund in painting, book design, tapestry, embroidery, stained glass, tiles, mosaic. He had little formal art training and always felt insecure about his figure drawing. What fired him as an artist was his early, deep and long-lasting friendship with William Morris, whom he met at Oxford in the 1850s, when both were new undergraduates. They had meant to go into the Anglican Church, but in 1855 they resolved to dedicate their lives to art and design...