Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Werner Stoy, who chartered a helicopter to photograph Fort DeRussy, on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, the problem was not trees but dense commercial high-rise developments surrounding the land, which made it difficult for his pilot to maneuver. David Falconer was luckier. He expected visibility problems when he rented a plane to shoot pictures of Oregon's Bald Mountain Lookout. But shortly before he arrived, light broke through the soup-thick clouds just long enough...
...Fort Lauderdale...
...wages, went on a rampage, fatally shooting six people and wounding four others at three places where he had worked. He was finally killed in a Shootout with police. A day later, Junett Bryant found her son Ricky Lee, 31, dead on the bedroom floor of his cottage near Fort Worth, stabbed, castrated and decapitated. Four more victims were next door. Larry Keith Robison, 25, who had been staying with Bryant while looking for a job, has confessed to the killings...
...hotels. Instead, they pay anywhere from $3,000 to $15,000 to buy rights to a week or perhaps as much as a month each year in a villa, bungalow or apartment. Typical of such deals is the package offered by the newly built Snug Harbor Marina Village in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Snug Harbor charges a moderate $2,500 to $6,000 a week for two bedrooms and two baths, plus the use of a village-owned fleet of 22-ft. to 25-ft. cabin cruisers docked outside. About 100 miles to the north in Madeira Beach, Fla., another...
...launched a program to reassess El Greco and to put together a major show of his art. It took a lot of doing. He enlisted the help of the Prado Museum. Washington's National Gallery Director J. Carter Brown, Scholars William Jordan at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Jonathan Brown at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and Richard Kagan of Johns Hopkins. They begged and borrowed at museums ranging from Oslo to San Francisco; in the end nearly half of the 66 works came from Spain, either from the Prado or the Toledo...