Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crockford's was the acknowledged heaven of gambling hells. Benjamin Disraeli, who had to wait six years before being elected to membership in 1840, likened its original building in St. James's to "Versailles in the days of the Grand Monarch.'' It was a favorite haunt of politicians, and the Duke of Wellington instinctively repaired to Crockford's when he tried to form a new Cabinet in 1834. The future Napoleon III was holed up there when an emissary came to offer him the crown of Greece (he turned it down...
Congratulations for your straightforward report on hunger in China. Words and pictures continue to haunt-these are people, suffering and enduring...
...Greek and Roman models, felt constrained to leave out the genitals when he painted a floating male figure in Evening, Fall of Day. Ralph Blakelock, who ended his days trying to paint million-dollar bills in a Middletown, N.Y., asylum, possessed a talent that still has the power to haunt. His small Wood Nymph is set in a fantasy forest, as dreamlike as a landscape by Ryder...
Ever the perfect patrician, Peru's President Manuel Prado, 72, descended the planeside steps at Washington's MATS terminal one day last week with the sure and jaunty gait of a boulevardier revisiting a familiar haunt. He gripped President Kennedy's hand, bowed with gallant grace to kiss the gloved hand of Madame la Présidente, Jacqueline. So taken was Jackie that she nearly forgot to present the roses she was carrying to Prado's elegant and equally aristocratic wife, Clorinda. Prado, whose innate courtliness has carried him through ten such state visits around...
...herself, Natalie can hardly wait. She fervently hopes that Splendor will at last wipe out the image of the child star that still lingers on among TV viewers of her old movies, which are still running on the late, late shows. Says she: "Those things haunt me. People are always bugging me by saying 'My, how you have grown!' You'd think they expected me to stay seven years old." But her anxiety is needless. As any studio executive or reader of the gossip columns could have told them, Nat is a big girl in Hollywood...