Word: greate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this? "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard, because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with." The writers of The Wizard of Oz dared and thereby helped make a great film...
...until he was invited to dine with President George Bush. Then a series of missteps turned a social occasion into a diplomatic cause celebre. Using crude police muscle, the Chinese government physically barred Fang, China's most famous dissident, from attending the Texas barbecue that Bush gave at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel to salute Chinese dignitaries at the end of an otherwise friendly visit to Beijing. The invitation infuriated the Chinese government, Fang's manhandling offended the U.S., and the Bush Administration was left with egg foo yung on its face...
MOZART AND SCHNABEL, VOLS. 1-4 (Arabesque). The great Artur Schnabel in memorable performances of Mozart piano concertos and solo music, recorded in London between...
...election and Koskotas was determined to curry favor. Within a few months he hired as bank general manager a PASOK veteran, Panayotis Vakalis, whom he knew to be a longtime friend of Andreas Papandreou's. The connection eventually brought the young banker and the Prime Minister together. The great swindle was under...
Nunn absorbed politics by osmosis. His father, a lawyer and farmer, was mayor of Perry and a campaign manager for other, full-time politicians. His great-uncle was the legendary Carl Vinson, who served in the Congress for 50 years, 14 of those as the brook-no-dissent chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Politics, in other words, was everywhere...