Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graduate?called a friend, Actor Stanley Beck. "It was about 1 o'clock in the morning," says Beck. "The phone rang. It was Dusty. 'Hey, can you pick me up?' he says. There he is, out at the Academy awards the night he's been nominated for an Oscar, and he has no car, no driver, no place to sleep. I told him to take a cab and he could sleep in the living room. He came up, slept, left without making the bed, and I never...
...Harvard supporters are Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History; George C. Homans '32, professor of Sociology; Willard V. O. Quine, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; and Israel Scheffler, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy...
...OSCAR DE LA RENTA thinks that natural shyness is probably responsible for the fact that Mrs. Nixon "hasn't started blooming yet." He envisions her as "ladylike" and "distinguished," an air she could cultivate by dressing in "a more feminine and fluid way." His boldly belled crepe pants suit with gold trim has that liquid look...
Italy also has very little coal or iron. When, in 1947, some Italian leaders requested a World Bank loan to build a steel industry, the bankers rather snidely advised them to stick to growing tomatoes. But Industrialist Oscar Sinigaglia, then head of the state-owned Finsider steel complex, landed a big order from Fiat and went on to locate his mills at ports, where ships bring in coal and steel from the cheapest foreign sellers. Finsider is now Europe's biggest steel producer, and last year Italy's output rose from 17.4 million tons to 18.7 million, fifth...
...offering the public another medium of pop art. The deception was not essentially different from producing soup cans and Brillo boxes in wood and paint. Pop art is premised, after all, on the belief that the surfaces of things are what really matter, or that, as Oscar Wilde wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray: "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible...