Word: oldest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...show is most famous as the world's oldest continuing cross-dressing musical comedy...
...departed because the Caldera government's suspension of civil liberties denies him a fair hearing. He claims to be the victim of a vendetta by Investment Minister Carlos Bernardez, an old political enemy with whom he vied for control of Banco de Venezuela, one of the country's oldest banks, which is now in government hands. -Gustavo Gomez Lopez, Tinoco's successor as president of Banco Latino. He insists he is innocent and claims he is being targeted by Caldera, who, he says, is determined to punish the friends of his old foe Perez. Gomez Lopez says most of Banco...
...initial appeal of The Hat may have been the simple effect that fur produces on the head of a bald man: a shameless and warm toupee. The distinction between balding, foreign men and our top professors being pretty sketchy, The Hat caught on quickly as a sign of the oldest guard of the Intellectual Elite (It's rumored that all eight University professors received new Hats upon their appointment, and precocious Professor of Mathematics Noam Elkies owned several at the tender age of eight). This theory is feasible only at Harvard, where fashion trends sparked by old intellectual men could...
...trove rivaling-and perhaps surpassing-those of Lascaux and Altamira. "This is a virgin site-it's completely intact. It's great art," exulted Jean Clottes, an adviser to the French Culture Ministry and a leading authority on prehistoric art. It has also reopened some of the oldest and least settled of questions: When, how and above all why did Homo sapiens start making...
Among the oldest types of art is personal decoration-ornaments such as beads, bracelets, pendants and necklaces. The body was certainly one of the first surfaces for symbolic expression. What did such symbols communicate? Presumably the wearer's difference from others, as a member of a distinct group, tribe or totemic family: that he was a bison-man, say, and not a reindeer...