Word: opus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WEAR THE RIGHT THING. Spike Lee's next opus, a film-bio of Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, hasn't even been filmed yet, but these emblematic caps are getting hot reviews already...
...everything? How about a copy of the Lawyer's Guide to Payment Limitations, a $20 book for farmers (and their financial advisers) who want to bone up on ways to skirt the law that limited agricultural subsidies to $250,000 a person. A brochure for the 195-page opus boasts that it "contains annotated text, checklists, and sample pleadings" to help haymakers boost their government-supported income...
Asked by the American Spectator to recommend gift books, she touted husband Ronnie's opus. Next came My Turn, by Nancy Reagan. She called it an "honest book answering all the charges that had been made against her for eight years that she didn't feel she could answer at the time...
...what might happen at National Review now that Bill Buckley has retired. A tweedy editor of the critical monthly New Criterion has some delicious gossip about faculty problems at Duke. A lanky novelist asks if anyone else plans to catch the lecture on Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain at the Opus Dei center next door...
...violin and celloparts had obviously been worked through--theplaying was natural and blended. Cohen showed abit of spark in the second movement with Dvorak'sfolksy fiddle tune. The great, heaving opening ofthe sixth movement was very successful, enhancedfurther by the spirited and well-executed surpriseending. The Beethoven trio (Opus 1, #1) served asa fun cap to the evening but did not enhance anyof the music which had preceded...