Word: oscars
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Speaking to reporters during a photo sessionwith Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, Reagansaid he has not "given any thought" to claimingexecutive privilege to prevent Cabinet secretariesfrom testifying...
...youngster growing up in the 1870s, Appleton was probably a pretty interesting place. "Wisconsin had so many circuses back then," observes Oscar Boldt, president of the Boldt Holding Corp., "and when they unloaded the elephants, there was excitement, real excitement, the sort of excitement you could feed off for months." Today some kids in Appleton still feed off the excitement evoked by the name Houdini. Thirteen-year-old Bill Brehm, an aspiring magician, is one of them. "I'd like to know how he did some of his tricks," confides Brehm, who has started practicing Houdini-inspired handcuff escapes. "Like...
...Hodgepodge offers foreign words the English language could use: magari!, Italian for "Would that it were so!"; razliubito, Russian for the feeling one has for someone he once loved but now does not. And some of history's more memorable deathbed utterances: "Either that wallpaper goes or I do" (Oscar Wilde...
Liberty and Power seems to be torn by two impulses. On the one hand, Oscar Handlin, who retired last year, may have felt compelled to write it as the definitive version of his view of the main themes in American history. But on the other hand, as the rather overblown subtitle suggests, this book may have been meant for the bookshelves of Mr. and Mrs. Middle America. As the latter, it may succeed. But as the former, it would never have won Handlin tenure...
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