Word: greeks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vice President's wife. But it is hard to believe that she would have been invited to appear on the Today show to promote her turgid novel, Embrace the Serpent, if Dan Quayle were just another golf-loving lawyer from Indiana. Could it be pure coincidence that Greek businessman Basil Tsakos was paying Mark Hatfield's wife $55,000 for choosing fabric and paint chips for his office at the same time the Oregon Senator was urging federal support for Tsakos' $12 billion oil pipeline? Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry's wife Effie hardly got those fur coats...
...audience" for help. To their rescue comes Doris Levine, a blonde, boppy philosophy student from Wellesley, played with convincing ditziness by Isabelle Hurtubise. In the course of the action other fatuous students are called to the stage: Lorenzo Miller (Arzhang Kamarei), the pompous playwright, Trichinosis (Joel Pulliam), another Greek who invents the ridiculous deus ex machina to save the play and a regal but spacy Queen (Elizabeth Price) who strolls in with a roast beef sandwich. Woody Allen himself even phones in a few times to give advice to his characters...
...Myerson, 52, the charges signal a precipitous fall from grace. And as in Greek tragedy, his fate seems the result of a fundamental character flaw. Despite a hefty draw of $1.4 million from his $400-an-hour rate at the prestigious New York law firm of Myerson & Kuhn, Myerson's profligate life- style -- featuring Ferraris and Rolls-Royces, five homes, 20th century art and foot-long Cuban cigars -- called for even more. In 1988, for example, Myerson took family members on a chartered-jet vacation to Maine -- and allegedly billed client Shearson Lehman (without the firm's knowledge...
Social Context of Greek Art--Through May 31. Fogg Art Museum...
...Power of the Spoken World: Greek Fictional Orality in a Comparative Context--by Irene Kacandes, assistant prof. of German, Univ. of Texas, Austin. 61 Kirkland...