Word: kins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...academic kin to troubled St. John's University in New York City...
Except for the glint of halos, the figures in this youthful Madonna, despite their hierarchic gestures, are close kin to flesh and blood. Subtly but simply, the artist has divided his composition in two: at right, the blue haze dissolves into atmospheric depth; while at left, the leafy, lemon-bearing latticework seems to push the Madonna's arm forward. The artist flips her cloak inside out to balance the push and pull between foreground and background, playing its green lining against distant hills, its blue surface against the trellis...
...sisters struck a sour note, banging the piano lid down on their fingers. At four, he was performing at charity concerts, pressing his engraved calling cards on everyone he met: ARTUR THE GREAT PIANO VIRTUOSO. It annoyed him even then that people always asked if he was any kin to the great Anton Rubinstein, and so he took to prancing around town with the words NO RELATION inscribed on the front of his sailor...
Packing the courtroom, and often making demonstrations outside it, were scores of emotional patients and their kin who believe that Krebiozen has saved their lives. The jury of four housewives, two saleswomen, a stenographer, a printer, a retired machinist, a maintenance man, a truck driver and a janitor heard more than 4,000,000 words of testimony so full of conflicting claims that Judge Julius J. Hoffman declared: "This case bristles with issues of veracity...
...World War II forced Indira to break off her studies and return home in 1941. She plunged at once into her country's increasingly bloody battle for independence. Showing some independence of her own, she defied her father and married an obscure Parsi lawyer named Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma). Within a few months Feroze and his bride were both in British prisons on charges of subversion. Much like her dolls, Indira had been arrested while leading a parade of women demonstrators down the main streets of Allahabad...