Word: guys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Item after item was killed, until only $222 million (or about one-eighth) was left in the bill that had originally appropriated $1,648,876,128. The members of the House sat happily watching the slaughter; general feeling was that it could hardly be happening to a more deserving guy than Cannon or a more deserving committee than Rules. Besides, the Representatives all knew that the Senate would restore the cuts...
Hirshhorn may begin his tour of an exhibition by stepping briskly over to the dealer and demanding to know how many kids the artist has and how his work is selling. If the kids are many and sales few, Hirshhorn sees one more opportunity to "be a decent guy." He glances swiftly at the pictures, hoping hard to find some that "sing," or, better yet, make him "feel weak." In a pleasantly weak mood, he may order a dozen or more in as many minutes. Over the past quarter of a century, Hirshhorn has amassed some 800 contemporary American paintings...
...World but lives on gloomy West 23rd Street with a shopkeeper named MacDougal. Author Goyen's point is that great emotional disunity results when so many different elements are present, e.g., how can a woman dream about "birds and bells in a romantic musical city" when a guy with a name like MacDougal is trying to climb into bed with her? How can she capture the ravishing spells of Old Spain amid the gasoline smells of West 23rd Street...
...exerts a peculiar fascination for 20th century connoisseurs: more than 400 studies of him have been published since 1914. The National Gallery has always been weak in German art (as are most galleries west of the Rhine) but the Kress gifts will change all that. According to Guy Emerson, vice director of the Kress Foundation, Grünewald's Crucifixion will dominate "the finest room of German paintings outside of Germany...
Captain Trimmer is just one of the odd fish that Evelyn Waugh takes whenever he lets down his nets. This novel is chiefly about officers who have always been gentlemen, particularly that "Christian gentleman,'' Guy Crouchback. It is every bit as good as Men at Arms, whose splendid characterizations and fine writing led many in 1952 to predict that its author had begun the best English fictional account of World War II. Waugh writes of the life and death of ruling-class commandomen with the authority of one who took part in raids on Bardia in Libya...