Word: marination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather pleased by their release. Said one activist: "For Puerto Ricans, the nationalist ex-prisoners represent, even for those of us who are not Independistas, people who lived by principle, people who placed the cause of freedom for Puerto Rico above themselves." Said Commonwealth Founder Luis Muñoz Marin: "I share the deep satisfaction for this clemency that all Puerto Ricans must feel...
Twice in 1906 Henri Matisse painted the same brooding young sailor in the same pose in the Mediterranean town of Collioure. Critics have always preferred Le Jeune Marin II for its flowing strokes and color. Perhaps that was because they saw little of Jeune Marin I; Matisse sold it to Gertrude Stein's brother Michael, who twelve years later sold it to a Norwegian collector. Recently Marin I surfaced at exhibitions in New York and Zurich, a prelude to auction last week at Christie's in London. There, in spirited bidding on the floor and by telephone...
Americans are a people capable of extraordinary ingenuity and unexpected self-discipline when they come up hard against something they see as a real emergency. When California's Marin County was confronted with a drought two years ago, for example, residents shared the burden of sacrifice with remarkable success, revising their life-styles to accommodate the need. But Americans are also a breathtakingly forgetful people who are simply not moved to change their lives very much in consideration of the long range...
...Ceauşescu's five brothers, Ilie is a major general, Ion is a deputy minister of agriculture, Marin is a counsel at the Rumanian embassy in Vienna, and Florea is a senior editorial writer for the party newspaper, Scinteia. His brother Nicolae (in Rumania, brothers sometimes have the same first name) is consul-general in Kiev...
...Most of the 40 papers (combined circulation 1.5 million) in the year-old National Association of Alternative Newsweeklies are tabloids serving urban areas. But at least one is a full-size broadsheet (Willamette Week in Portland, Ore.), and others are statewide (Maine Times), suburban (Pacific Sun in Marin County, Calif.), rural (California's Mendocino Grapevine) and even insular (Maui...