Word: loding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real ballad, When I Lost You. The Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 brought forth A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; 1924 saw both the tenderly brooding What'll I Do? and the valse triste All Alone. His courtship of heiress Ellin Mackay, granddaughter of an owner of the Comstock Lode, was breathlessly followed in the press, and their secret marriage in 1926, over her father's vigorous objections, made headlines. It also made standards like Always...
...real mother lode of the global palladium supply is South Africa. Those who find America's marriage of convenience with the oil-producing gulf states troubling should shudder at the prospect of cozy relations with the current South African regime...
...have befallen people, and Updike adjusted as best he could: he cashed the checks, entertained intrusive interviewers and basked modestly in the limelight. But several years ago, his equanimity slipped when he heard that someone, somewhere, was planning to write his biography. "To take my life," he thought, "my lode of ore and heap of memories, from me!" If anyone was going to tell Updike's story, the author decided, it ought to be Updike...
Does anyone share this illusion of a radical break today? Not likely. Precisely because the 19th century (except for impressionism and its consequences) was once shunned, for the past 20 years it has been the curator's mother lode. This new curiosity radiates not only from grand exhibitions like those of Degas and Courbet, but also from others more modest in size, like "The Romantic Spirit: German Drawings, 1780-1850," which is on view at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City through...
...Republican assault on Dukakis' furlough policy had stopped with making these valid points, Democrats and blacks would have no just cause for complaint. But the Republican attack did not stop there. Instead, Bush's handlers tapped into the rich lode of white fear and resentment of blacks that the G.O.P. staked out more than 20 years ago, when the party of Lincoln recast itself as the embodiment of the white backlash. It started with Barry Goldwater railing against Earl Warren's Supreme Court and civil rights legislation. Then, as the long hot summers blazed, Richard Nixon courted voters with...