Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motivation from the actor. "I do not believe actors are children or dumb. They are complex people with sensibilities equal to mine in a different direction." Says Geraldine Fitzgerald, whose appearance in Ah, Wilderness! is one of several she has made with the company: "He reminds me of Max Reinhardt, with whom I worked in Sons and Soldiers in 1943. For both of them, the theater is acting. Arvin never puts down actors or upstages them...
officials around the country will be divided among several staffers. William Timmons, Nixon's chief congressional liaison, is planning to leave in the near future. His replacement: Max Friedersdorf, 45, who is currently Ford's lobbyist in the House of Representatives and was Timmons' assistant...
...Braddock's luck faltered. During the Depression he worked on the docks and went on the dole, but he kept on fighting -and losing. After a surprise victory in 1934, he disposed of three strong contenders for the heavyweight crown and earned a shot at Champion Max Baer's title. Braddock skillfully outboxed Baer for 15 rounds, winning a unanimous decision and Damon Runyon's sobriquet "the Cinderella...
...addition, investigations into the nature of revolutions indicate that Jencks is totally mistaken in attributing the existence of revolutions to educated refugees from the lower classes. Rather, it seems that the major leaders of past revolutions have been what Max Nomad, a student of revolutions, called "declasse intellectuals"--members of the upper class who have defected. In Crane Brinton's "Anatomy of Revolution"--a study of England's "Glorious Revolution," America's War of Independence, the French Revolution, and the Russian Revolution--he found in all cases that "an enzyme without which the revolution would have been impossible...
...what the description leaves out is Bill's acute sense of color relationships and the cool, meticulous perfection of the skin of paint-a skin that makes the epidermis of Mondrian's geometrical abstracts seem coarse by comparison. In his exquisite judgment of value and hue, Max Bill is one of the great colorists in modern...