Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision to try to protect the privacy of Helga made the suspicious more so. And Art & Antiques reports that when Betsy Wyeth was asked what the works were about and why her husband had kept them secret, she took a long, pensive pause and replied, "Love." Did Betsy mean that the artist, known for his continuing and intimate relationships with the subjects of his paintings, was having an affair with his model? Or could it be that Betsy's public hint of that affair was part of an elaborate strategy to woo media attention and thus inflate both the price...
Because of confusion over the future of display space in the Busch, it could also not be determined yesterday if any addition to the Fogg museum would mean a net increase in the total art viewing space available at Harvard...
...possible intent by which they were formed in a world dead and gone, carry far less weight than the flow of legal history and the accumulated power of precedent. Says Justice William J. Brennan Jr.: "The ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time?" John Marshall, as usual, may have put it best. "We must never forget," he wrote in McCulloch, "that this is a constitution we are expounding . . . intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs...
...honor of being addressed as "Mr." by an All-Pro tackle. Most N.F.L. stadiums are filled at kickoff time, and last year the owners of the 28 franchises divvied up some $1.2 billion in TV contracts. Understandably, the N.F.L. barons have been loath to share the spoils. More teams mean smaller slices of the TV pie. Businessmen who want to start a new pro team are left with only one option: to form their own league...
Though designed for foreigners, the course would be an eye-opener to most Americans, who rarely reflect on the quantity of slang and colloquialisms they use. Even the President talks about making some foreign government "say uncle" (an expression from the Irish anacol, meaning mercy). Non-slang can baffle by its seeming want of logic. Is a billboard a board on which you stick a bill? Jingle? "Is that an Irish song?" a student asked. "What does it mean," another wondered, "to kick...