Word: homespun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...named Harry Tammen and a rich but tightfisted developer, Fred Bonfils. For the next several decades, the two partners made the Post one of the liveliest, if least respected newspapers in the country. Advertisers were bullied, civic leaders were indiscriminately attacked, and readers came to know Publisher Bonfils' homespun creed: "A dogfight in a Denver street is more important than a war in Europe." Yet the formula worked; the afternoon Post regularly outsold its morning rival, the Rocky Mountain News (now owned by the Scripps-Howard chain). As Tammen liked to say, "We're yellow...
...century England, and the English still love him: in every way, the big Gainsborough retrospective now on view at London's Tate Gallery is a ceremony of national taste. Organized by Art Historian John Hayes, it traces Gainsborough's career from his beginnings as apprentice painter of homespun Suffolk dignitaries to his apotheosis as the most popular and sought-after portraitist of the Georgian ruling classes. There are more than 150 paintings and drawings, although some of his best-known work-like the Blue Boy, or the exquisite portrait, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, in the National Gallery...
...support of most of the leaders and power brokers of the Democratic Party, the kind of experienced operators that any rival to the President would need to rally in order to organize a coup. Senator Wendell Ford, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, drew on the homespun philosophy of his native Kentucky to counsel caution. Said he: "We have a saying: Don't overrun the rabbit...
...familiar in Epstein's inhospitable forest; yet even they become possessed, reacting to Bottom's "translation" by careering across the stage in hops, sprints and tumbles while the musicians play one of Purcell's country dances. The sorcery of the wood finds little purchase on their "hempen homespun" minds, but gets at then anyway through their bodies...