Word: leon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubles action, Engle and Leon Palandjian teamed up for a straight-set victory over Spiegel and Levine...
...issue that has riddled experts for forty years? The Arab students omit, not only their names from this poster, but also the story behind the statements. Perhaps they are scared to openly admit their support for an organization that takes greatest pride in the murder of disabled American Leon Klinghoffer, the 1972 massacre of Olympic Athletes in Munich, and the 1974 massacre of sleeping Israeli children in Ma'alot...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, John Elson, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Leo, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
...developed his wry, sweet and irrepressibly meshuggeneh visions in the two great forcing houses of modernism between 1900 and 1925: Paris and Russia. As a student in St. Petersburg up to 1910, he came under the wing of Diaghilev's designer Leon Bakst; an enlightened Jewish patron, Max Vinaver, sent him to Paris that year. He took a studio in a rickety building near the slaughteryards and found that his neighbors were Soutine, Leger and Modigliani. Back in Russia by 1914, Chagall waited out World War I (and was plunged into the Revolution) in the company of Tatlin, Malevich...
...seemed at the time. Now Marie Brenner, a seasoned magazine profiler of the privileged, shows just how much we did not know about the Binghams. (Brenner is not the family's only biographer; The Binghams of Louisville, by David Leon Chandler, was published in December, and another book, by New York Times Reporter Alex S. Jones and TIME Associate Editor Susan Tifft, is due next year.) House of Dreams can be read in several ways: as a love story between Barry Bingham Sr. and his wife Mary, as a guide to how not to rear children, as a cautionary tale...