Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jordan, King Hussein kept his American-born wife Queen Nur, Brown's wife Colene and other guests waiting more than two hours for a formal dinner while he and Brown held what was later described as a "frank and fervent" discussion. All went smoothly until Israel became the subject: the King reportedly was adamant about the need for guarantees of the return of the West Bank and East Jerusalem to Arab sovereignty, and for a satisfactory resolution of the problem of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories...
...Mississippi and the Rockies. Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Austin, Omaha and others are quietly booming, with their unemployment down to the 2½%-3½ range. They are the beneficiaries of economic diversification and the increasing desire of Americans to settle in cities that, as Beech Aircraft President Frank Hedrick puts it, "are small enough to allow individuals to excel and big enough to give them plenty of room to excel...
...what an abstract artist at the height of his powers can do, one should go to the two large relief paintings by Frank Stella, with their flapping, exuberant forms slathered in paint, crayon and glitter: a splendid yawp of vitality. Beside such work, nearly all the abstract painting being done by artists of Stella's generation in the U.S. today looks ei ther timid or bored. Among younger artists, the abstract impulse tends to be more plainly decorative, less ambitious: witness the elaborately imbricated patterns of Joyce Kozloff s Mad Russian Blanket, or the high-keyed color swatches, like...
...face with the ball," says Teammate Carl Nicks. Three nights later, Bird registered 20 points and 13 rebounds as Indiana State ran its record to 24-0 with a 69-68 win over Southern Illinois. Still, Bird−when he talks−is frank enough to say, "It's great to be No. 1, but I don't think we have the best team in the country...
...book has apparently undergone some renovation, but purists of the Broadway class of '28 are the only ones who are likely to be troubled by that. If the word escapist were forgotten, Whoopee! would redefine it. The show is transparently mindless and totally exhilarating fun. Director Frank Corsaro has wisely pitched the tone of the entire evening between silent-movie comedy and balmy operantics. It is never camped. Like gentle satire, it is half in love with what it kids, but time−not the cast−does the kidding...