Word: patronizingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leveler. There are also the usual convoy of country-club dreadnoughts and assortment of foibles and venal sinning that go into the makings of De Vries' unusual comic novels. Peckham needs Poppy's financial support, and she yearns for his intellectual tutelage. What ensues is a zesty tale of patron and patronizer in which the student learns her lessons so well that she gains a highbrow reputation, while Peckham's next novel is thought to be derivative of Poppy's daring new style. De Vries' freewheeling manner remains unmistakably his own and a durable delight...
...good thing about Au Bon Pain is that it's a place where you can come and get a cup of coffee and just sit for a while," said Au Bon Pain patron Jon Gibbons '84, a Law School student...
Store 24 presently has an edge because most shoppers already know it's there. "I got in the habit of coming here when I was at Harvard Summer School, [and] I keep coming back," explains Store 24 patron Joel H. Friedman, an MIT undergraduate...
Store 24 presently has an edge because most shoppers already know it's there. "I got in the habit of coming here when I was at Harvard Summer School, [and] I keep coming back," explains Store 24 patron Joel H. Friedman, an MIT undergraduate...
...nothing comes out of childhood without the formal keys to unlock it. Where other art was concerned, Moore (like his lifelong friend and patron Kenneth Clark, who arranged for him to be an official war artist in World War II and was thus partly responsible for the sculptor's best-known early work, the underground-shelter drawings) was a great looker and rememberer. Certain works were fundamental to his art. A stone carving of the Mexican rain-god Chacmool gave him the crankshaft rhythm of shoulders, waist, pelvis and thighs that would surface in his own figures from the late...