Word: hues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ladies who take pen in hand are not irresistibly attracted by the blue of my eyes," confessed Oil Tycoon Jean Paul Getty, who, after five wives, still receives marriage proposals by mail. "The magnetism I exert is of another color -green, the hue of my purported wealth." Small wonder. Getty, 83, in an introduction to his forthcoming autobiography, As I See It, estimates his net worth at well over $ 1 billion and that of his family at "about twice again as much." J.P. disclosed that to avoid the sort of inheritance scramble that followed the death of Fellow Billionaire Howard...
...roustabouts looking for fun or profit. As University of Massachusetts Historian Pauline Maier has written: "The Boston mob was so domesticated that it refused to riot on Saturday and Sunday nights, which were considered holy by New Englanders." Indeed, often the "mob" served quite legal ends, as when the hue and cry was set up to apprehend a thief, or when measures had to be taken to deal with public health problems. Small wonder, then, that a member of a mob was rarely convicted for his riotous actions. In the 20th century we have become accustomed to seeing theft...
...response to these conditions was the creation of new, specialized institutions to deal with what had once been left to spontaneous and communal control. At the time of the Revolution, the "police" were nothing but night watchmen who set up the hue and cry if a fire broke out or a horse died in the street. But big cities began to suffer more noisome problems. By the 1820s one out of every 65 Bostonians was, according to Haverford College Historian Roger Lane, engaged in selling liquor. The dozen "houses of infamous character" that nourished in the West End of Boston...
There are many variations on the new wedge. Stylists at the Paul McGregor shops in New York and Los Angeles have shaped the back of the cut into three inverted pyramids. The Jon Peters salon in Beverly Hills has added to the cry with hue. Says Owner Allen Edwards: "For fun, we like to apply iridescent color to the bottom of the wedge -aura colors like purple, reds and blues...
...hue and cry over W&B's alleged invasion of the Nixon family's privacy doesn't seem to hold up either. In fact, Nixon, obviously not a source, lurks away from the center of action in The Final Days, like some offstage synthesis of Macbeth and Lear. But the fact of the matter is that Nixon. One of the most private men ever to live, was the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and, as he himself reportedly told some of his advisers the day he announced his resignation, Nixon had "the little black box" in his control...