Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bertha Cohen died in 1965, leaving no will and few close relatives. A distant nephew was named executor of the estate after a five-year court battle and he quickly disposed of the property on the open market. Harvard and developer Max Wasserman, a close friend and high school chum of Eddie Crane's, both bid on the property, with Wasserman coming out the winner...
...first time since 1943 the museum is exhibiting Winthrop's entire collection of ancient Chinese jades. The exhibition seems to have been designed with Winthrop in mind and it reveals much about what he sought as a collector. Daniel Robbins, in the foreword to Max Loehr's completely illustrated, scholarly catalogue of the exhibition, remarks that Winthrop "believed in an artistic faculty essentially independent of time and place; he also felt that the making of beautiful and perfect objects utterly transcended their function in a strictly utilitarian sense as evidence of a way of life." The more than four hundred...
Dreyer's Day of Wrath, plus a Griffith short, Thursday, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m. Max Ophuls' The Exlle, with Douglas Fair-banks, Jr., plus a Chaplin short, Sunday...
...magnificent Max von Sydow plays Harry with more conviction than the movie can afford and more dignity than it allows. Even confronted with insights like "There is a life within-you have only to step out of your shadows to see it," Von Sydow bears up fearlessly and with something like grace...
Traditional phrase structure grammar analyzed sentences independent of their relation to other sentences: for example, a passive sentence like "Max was crushed by the safe" would be parsed into subject-verb-prepositional phrase. Chomsky's contribution was to recognize that the same, easily described relationship between that sentence and its active counterpart, "The safe crushed Max," exists between countless other pairs of sentences. He conceived of "transformations" as simple devices to describe the relations between simple sentences like "The safe crushed Max" and complex ones like "Max was crushed by the safe," "What the safe did was crush Max...