Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across Pakistan last week, patriotic banners adorned public buildings, guns boomed, and thousands thrilled at the sight of "enemy forces" being put to rout in mock battles. The occasion was the first anniversary of the outbreak of the border war with India-a conflict in which the shooting stopped only...
Last week Sylvia died, and curious crowds pushed and shoved as a saddened Illia walked slowly through the streets behind his wife's casket. At the church, and later at the cemetery, the unruly throng tried to turn the sad occasion into an anti-Ongania demonstration by shouting, "Death...
The occasion seemed to be all Tanya's when what to the wandering eye should appear but an ex-stripper named Rita Renoir in an openwork crocheted gown under which she wore only a nostalgic G string. Worse yet, Princess Virginie-CarolineThérèse-Pancracie-Galdine von...
Elegant & Eccentric. Last week, on the occasion of Cleveland's 50th anniversary, Lee looked like a Caesar back from the pillage of some artistic Carthage. Presiding at a candlelit banquet for 275 guests and trustees, he displayed a trophy case filled with 159 new acquisitions, valued at some $5...
The case began last spring when a frail, 82-year-old lady named Eva Savage consigned a batch of 35 presumably undistinguished paintings to Christie's to be auctioned. Her husband, who died 15 years ago, had been a picture framer whose practice was to buy old frames which...