Word: half
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sang was People. Brooks insists that the high-pressure rush has little to do with Barbra's fame. But every album-plugging newspaper interview somehow gets around to the Streisand kinship. Roz insists that "if I could just do a fourth of what my sister did, or maybe half, I'd be happy. So long as I've done it on my own." So far, the only person who seems content to see Roz make it on her own has been Barbra herself, who has limited her encouragement to one phone call and a telegram...
...Half sister, really. After Barbra's father died in 1943, her mother married Louis Kind, a Brooklyn tailor and Roslyn's father...
...After half a dozen years in which galleries and museums were touting gimmicks and gadgetry of all kinds, there is a renewed appreciation of what is called painterly painting-painting in which the sensuous quality and texture of the paint-on-canvas is rewarding. Pop, op, mechanical art and the newest of the crowd, earthworks, are still there-but somehow they no longer have the appeal that they used...
...dirge reflects not only the declining impact of religion generally but some hard demographic facts. Largely because of farm mechanization, England's rural population has dwindled by 75% in the past half-century; in some isolated pockets of Sussex and East Anglia, it has fallen to 2% of the pre-World War I level. But while the people have gone, their churches remain. Near the village of Tetford, for example, there are seven miniature churches, most of them nearly 200 years old, that were built by the old town gentry in a kind of keeping-up-with-Squire-Jones...
Such fringes are most generous in West Germany, where companies lavish benefits on the lowliest employees as well as on the highest executives. A manufacturer passes out free opera tickets. Brewery hands carry home two to four liters of beer every day; slaughterhouse workers are entitled to half a side of pork each month. Employees of the Reemtsma cigarette company get 30 free packs of cigarettes a month-which they often sell...