Word: lifelong
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Although a lifelong Labor supporter, Bury this time plans to vote for the Alliance candidate. Says she: "Labor is just a joke. I listen to them talking and I think I am dreaming...
...displays a conspicuous gift for drawing out his subjects, such as the torrentially voluble, visionary architect Buckminster Fuller, 87, and his friend of 50 years, the laconic sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, 78. Michaelis, a 1979 Princeton graduate, is most successful at re-creating the Ivy League background of the lifelong friendship between George Love, 82, and Donold Lourie, 83. Both men, who went on to become heads of families and the chiefs, respectively, of Chrysler and Quaker Oats, never ceased to view themselves as the golden boys of Princeton's class of '22. Vastly popular leaders at a time...
Before the Phoenix audience, Reagan, himself a lifelong NRA member, declared that "those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun-control laws." Then he added, referring to his own 1981 shooting: "I happen to know this from personal experience." Earlier in the day, Reagan visited a gathering of some 300 elderly volunteer sheriffs posse members, where he took credit for reducing inflation, fighting crime and saving the Social Security system...
Residents rallied to one another's support. Jim Brooks opened his restaurant in the middle of the night to make free sandwiches. But many lifelong dreams were shattered. Stationer Bunker's wife Florence announced, "We are going to give up. We don't need a low-interest Government loan." Surveying the remains of a turn-of-the-century mansion he had carefully restored, Jack McCormack, 52, sighed: "I got $90,000 sitting on the ground." But Mayor Keith Scrivner refused to count Coalinga out. Said he: "We will rebuild...
Balanchine's musical acumen paid off, spectacularly, in an almost lifelong partnership with Composer Igor Stravinsky, resulting in such landmarks as Apollo (1928), Orpheus (1947) and Agon (1957). The first dance Balanchine ever made to Stravinsky's music in the West was a segment of The Song of the Nightingale in 1925, and the last major project he worked on, the City Ballet's 1982 Stravinsky centennial celebration, included a new version of Noah and the Flood...