Word: lu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under Luís Batlle Berres, 61 (Batlle y Ordóñez' nephew), Uruguayans in the past eleven years got the real bill for Utopia. The state ballooned into an octopus, employed a fifth of the nation's force, with offices staffed so heavily that bureaucrats had to come early to get seats...
...actors slow down and give Brecht's witty asides a chance. Perhaps, as the run progresses, some will give their lines more of the broad irony that Brecht seems to intend. Others, particularly Eugene Pell, Richard Smithies, David Mills and Edith Iselin lay it on just right. And Claire Lu Thomas, portraying the angelic prostitute, manages to keep her sweet head in admittedly adverse circumstances (everybody picks on her because she's good...
...people against tax cuts? Lu-bell's subjects gave three principal reasons: i) the individual family's slice would be too thin to make much difference; 2) tax cuts would be of no direct help to the unemployed; and 3) "the country needs the money." An Iowa milkman, a Georgia welder, a Texas printer, a California autoworker and a New Jersey insurance salesman all used almost identical words: "It would help me personally, but how can the Government run without money? And what will we do about the Russians...
While the Markevitch children presented Nadia with a $3,000 diamond bought by members of the Boulangerie the world over, the guests launched into an exuberant chorus composed for the occasion by Francis Poulenc. "Vive Nadia, the dear Nadia Boulanger, the very dear Nadia, Al-le-lu-jah!" Later, musicians performed another birthday tribute: a cantata by Composer Jean Françaix for five strings, five winds and six-handed piano. Over the bubbly, breakneck music ex-pupils chanted their praise of Nadia. One, made up to look like President René Coty of France, paid the Fourth Republic...
...contemporary painter, who took up art as a hobby while working as a carpenter, gained worldwide fame in the '20s, sold his work on commission and by the square foot (price range: 50?-$2), and often signed his paintings with odd names: The Old Vagabond, The Disciple of Lu Pan (god of carpenters), The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard; in Peking. Living with 30 relatives (he supported about 50) in a rambling house, Ch'ih painted chicks, crickets, shrimp and crabs, occasionally a landscape ("Only the rich have known landscapes, but every ricksha boy knows a shrimp...