Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while Pei has been busy being a good neighbor in many American cities, his buildings in Boston have been having trouble making friends. Diagnosed euphemistically, Pei's problem may be what Back Bay Association president Daniel J. Ahern has called "the inevitable problems that everyone runs into when they build on Boston's weak foundations," or it may be a native reaction against disturbing Boston's more sedate areas, or possible it is plain bad luck. Whatever the reason, the New York-based architect has not had an easy time in Boston. And his hard times in the Hub have...
Betty Bloomer was not only a Powers model and a Martha Graham dancer before she married Gerald Ford in 1948; she had also been married. In 1942 Betty had wed a Grand Rapids neighbor, Furniture Salesman William Warren. Then in 1947, the couple were divorced on grounds of incompatibility, Betty being granted a token settlement of $1. A year later, she and Jerry Ford were married in a Grand Rapids church with the blessing of an Episcopal bishop. There has been no effort on her part, or on anyone else's, to conceal this historical footnote. The Vice President...
Violated Spirit. In other Common Market capitals, the reaction to the Roman surprise was one of irritation tempered by caution. A number of European statesmen complained privately that the restriction represented a beg-gar-thy-neighbor attempt by the Italians to solve their own problems at other countries' expense. Some even questioned the legality of the move, suggesting that Italy had violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the EEC charter. The Common Market has been built on the idea of a free exchange of goods...
...might say that China is both close to us and far from us. It's close in that it's our next-door neighbor and shares a long border with our country. At the same time, China is far away in that the Chinese have little in common with our people...
...also the youngest: Gris. His real name was José Gonzálèz, and he was the 13th child of a polyphiloprogenitive Madrid businessman. After a brief apprenticeship as a comic illustrator in Spain, Gris got to Paris in 1906 and installed himself as Picasso's neighbor in the now legendary Bâteau-Lavoir, a ramshackle cluster of studios in Montmartre. He painted nothing of importance until 1910, and uremia killed him in 1927 just after his 40th birthday...