Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christopher, 58, a Greek-born, self-made dairy tycoon, is as nubbly as Reagan is smooth. He points proudly to his distinguished mayoral record, seeks to widen his liberal-Republican base by supporting such conservative causes as fiscal integrity and increased support for local police. Most important, he asserts, he is the only Republican with sufficiently broad support to win in November; recent polls, his aides note, show him beating Brown by a margin of 15%, whereas a Reagan-Brown battle would be a dead heat. The same polls, however, show Christopher trailing Reagan in the primary race, and most...
Weary & Queery. Beardsley was influenced by Japanese prints and linear Greek vase painting, created an amalgam that also included serpentine art nouveau and traditional English silhouette figures. His subject matter was never innocent. Wrote Beardsley of a series of book cuts: "The subjects were quite mad and a little indecent. Strange hermaphroditic creatures wandering about in Pierrot costumes or modern dress; quite a new world of my own creation...
...Vlachos took over Kathimerini. Her employees, who regarded her as still a child, resisted innovations. So in 1961 she started Messimvrini, a paper in which she could "have her own way. She had the temerity to take the news off the last page, where it is customarily placed in Greek journalism, and spread it throughout the paper. She also brightened makeup and introduced Western-style leads. "All my staff were sure they'd be ruined," she recalls, "that my poor mother would be ruined, that their mothers would be ruined." But "Greeks like everything that everybody else likes," says...
...Loman, the salesman whose soul is as worn as his heels from his mindless pursuit of the American dream, is as pathetic today as he was 17 years ago. As his faithlessness to his wife and himself backfires and eventually destroys him, the play takes on the proportions of Greek drama, and Miller's point drives itself home: the common man can suffer a king-size tragedy...
Born. To Anthony Quinn, 50, cinema's leading man of many ethnic parts (Attila the Hun, Zorba the Greek), and lolanda Addolori, 31, his Venice-born second wife of four months: their third child, third son; in Rome...