Word: gorgeousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Speak No Treason is a king-size gothic romance by Rosemary Hawley Jarman, who writes medieval English almost as gorgeous as Charles Reade's in Cloister and the Hearth. Her pages are dotted with sarplers, live-lodes, oxters, and muster-develers. 'Zooks if anybody knows what they mean; 'zounds if they aren't fun anyway. So is her version of Richard. She sees him as a 15th century Bobby Kennedy, the runt of a glittering litter who as a youth is devoted to his glamorous older brother, King Edward IV, and as Edward's successor...
Bravado forms the essence of the spirit of Harvard's soccer team, and "this bravado is dangerous" Woods admits, "but gorgeous. Individual bravado infiltrates the ranks and turns into team bravado. Functioning as a team is a very good experience. We are a group of good friends, and we have had some beautiful moments that have never been equalled in soccer...
...Horace. Of the others, David Hook is noteworthy as Chrysalde, a friend of Arnolphe's who tries to make him widen his perspective on life. The set is pretty and very functional, and the costumes (who doesn't get a kick out of the 17th century French outfits?) are gorgeous...
...Lakes in Sunshine and Shadow" at Hilles Library. He had set his desk between the window ledge supporting blooming begonias and the bookcase containing his leather-bound embossed sets of Blake and Turner prints, Economically equipped with half-a-dozen paints, water and one brush, he had had a gorgeous time. At 78, he had laid a lifetime of artistic training and personal experience to harvest creating what he calls "my little pictures." However harmless Mr. Feild thinks his watercolors, there is nothing insipid about their author. He possesses an enviable impressionability and gentle wonder. Most aspects of "the adventure...
...according to one restaurateur, "thought nothing of picking up an £80 [$192] tab." He had a wife and seven-year-old son in Moscow, but British newspapers linked him with at least five women in London?an Israeli student, a Czech student, two English secretaries and "a gorgeous Russian blonde,"?Irina Teplyakova, thirtyish and the wife of another Soviet official. Oleg and Irina had been seen together in London restaurants and nightclubs for months, and though she is not believed to be with the KGB, she defected with him. Oleg was supposed to be a trade official...