Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks her age, with sunburst wrinkles around her boot-button eyes. But she wears her years with indifference. And age has very little to do with her appeal. She was 21 when she started and brought the house down with I Got Rhythm. But she was never a sex object. She was mostly the hearty hostess, amused by the raucous comedy of life and essentially detached. Her manner suggested that sex wasn't everything, that exuberance could give vitality to even the middle-aged and the homely. She palpably could never see herself as a romantic, and the arranged...
Every Thursday night at 8 o'clock thousands of Minneapolis and St. Paul housewives flip on their television sets to watch a video tape of the horse races at St. Petersburg's Sunshine Park. Their object is not to collect on a $2 bet but to match the numbers of the winning horses with numbers on cards that they picked up at their local National Food supermarket. The prizes are trading stamps-1,000 for a win, 500 for a place, 100 for a show...
...your cities." And in Micah 6:16, where the King James has the Lord meaninglessly warning "that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing," Phillips has the sensible "and they compel me to bring you to ruin, and make your inhabitants an object of scorn...
Isabella Stewart Gardner built a mansion, transformed it into a Venetian palace and endowed it as a museum. The museum still stands on Boston's Fenway; as her will stipulated, every object remains precisely where Mrs. Gardner placed it 60 years...
...Gardner not only arranged every object in every room; each arrangement expresses her personality. A not-so-conservative New York heiress, she married into one of Boston's most conservative families in 1880. Gossip about her eccentric habits soon developed--in part, one suspects, because the more proper Boson matrons envied her beauty and growing group of admirers. Of course, Mrs. Gardner willingly provided eccentricities for gossip--for example after missing the train to a party, Mrs. Gardner hired a locomotive, climbed into its cabin with the engineer, and shocked the party by arriving in this high style...