Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's cover story have bewitched, bothered or bitten Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, for quite some time. "My most bitter bug experience was in 1956," recalls Jaroff. "On assignment in Labrador for LIFE magazine I had to go through dense bush to get to Grand Falls. It was the height of the blackfly season, and I returned with 500 bites on my body. For 20 years, I've waited to get even...
Moslem doctrine accounts for much of the intractability of the Middle Eastern situation. The Koran specifically sanctions religious war: "When ye encounter the infidels, strike off their heads until ye have made a great slaughter of them." The Grand Sheik of Al Azhar in Cairo, a leading center of Islamic learning in the Middle East, has flatly said, "The struggle against Israel is jihad, and if all Moslems did their duty and took a weapon, there would be no problem." Moslem theology distinguishes between dar-al-Islam (the region already conquered for Allah) and dar-al-Harb (the region...
...Harvard hired to recover $5 million in rare coins stolen from the Fogg Museum in 1973 has reportedly been indicted along with another man by a Bristol County grand jury for assault and battery with intent to kill...
...people in their living rooms, he either comes through with men on base or he doesn't, either makes the necessary magnificent backhand on grass or doesn't Language is too often used as a smokescreen for banality or as with pieces like Tom Wolfe's, excuses for grand meanness and superiority. Action seems more honest and the supreme action in these days of American political quiescence--the action which we can all see and understand, unlike politics--is sports...
...rendered its spillway with a blue geometrical clarity; Richard Estes produced a view taken near Philadelphia's Independence Square, B&O; the Rockies were full of photorealists in National Park Service Jeeps, and one intrepid soul, Vincent Arcilesi, tethered his easel to the windy lip of the Grand Canyon to record on the spot its labyrinthine wrinkles. The results-78 paintings, first seen at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. -go on view at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Conn., this July 4th under the title America 1976, and the show will tour U.S. museums for the next...