Word: lazar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this point, the presentation was interrupted by a question from the Rt. Hon. Swfty Lazar of Beverly Hillf, who asked if the Bond proviso applied in perpetuity. "The series is obliged to run until the end of time," Mr. Morris replied. "That applief to the girls, the gadgets, the villains, the whole...
...megamillionaire, taking their teenage daughter Catherine with her. "She knew how to cut and run," says the narrator, who had met Elena in Los Angeles; both were regular invitees to Oscar-night parties that strongly resemble, as described here, the legendary ones thrown by the late agent Irving ("Swifty") Lazar. Didion's narrator does not dwell on this detail, but it is dropped nonetheless, as if to show that her heroine has renounced a very glitzy circle of friends...
...address the keys with the utmost confidence, and though the wrong notes sometimes fall thick and fast, there is never any question of who is in command -- or what the point of the performance really is. Richter has never been a virtuoso on the order of Vladimir Horowitz or Lazar Berman, a later Soviet firebrand with a crackling technique and not much else. Instead, he is a musician first and a pianist second. Hearing him play, one has the sense that if he could, he would communicate his message by telepathy, directly to the listener's mind and heart...
...Most Serbs, however, regard Kosovo as holy ground, the cradle of their nationhood, because of 1389 and all that. It has never helped relations between the two communities that Albanians are predominantly Muslims, while Serbs in the region have tended to see themselves as descendants of Lazar, defending the eastern frontier of Christendom against the encroachments of Islam. During the 1980s, this classically Balkan imbroglio played a key part in the rise of Milosevic, who in turn has contributed so crucially to the disintegration of Yugoslavia...
...Having already ravaged Croatia and Bosnia, the third Balkan War is about to spread into Serbia, setting the scene for a new battle of Kosovo. Like Prince Lazar, Milosevic will have led his people to disaster...