Word: gerrit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long to one of the Afrikaner churches. Roughly half of the country's white ministers, school officials and university rectors are Broederbond members. So are virtually all Cabinet members and at least 75% of National Party members of parliament. The Broederbond's chairman since 1974 has been Gerrit Viljoen, rector of the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg...
Five of the six paintings were on loan from Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, including two works by the 19th century French impressionist Eugene Boudin and one by the 17th century Dutch painter Gerrit Berckheyde, valued at $100,000 each...
Five of the six stolen paintings, including works by 19th century Impressionist Eugene Boudin, 17th century painter Gerrit Berckhyde and American landscape artists Twachtman and Gifford, were on loan from Harvard's Fogg Art Museum...
...stolen paintings, including works by Eugene Boudin, a French Impressionist, and Gerrit Berckheyde, a Dutch painter, are reportedly worth $380,000. Bok borrowed five of the paintings from the Fogg Museum, and owns the sixth...
Indeed De Palma is particularly tough on the youths who invite people like Swan to swindle them. They are observed to grow as hysterical over a talentless transvestite swinger named Beef (played in the film's gaudiest comic turn by Gerrit Graham) as they do over the pure loveliness of Phoenix's voice. A wedding onstage turns them on, but so does an assassination. "That's entertainment!" Swan cries, and no one challenges his all-purpose definition of the term. The terrible possibility exists that he is right-that nowadays all turn-ons are equally transitory...