Word: patronizingly
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...today is an unusual one for these groups, because it involves not only the support of the Office for the Arts (OFA)--a constant and highly regarded patron of undergraduate arts--but also administrators from around the University...
...climbed out a convent school window in Paris to elope with Jack Gardner," or "False: she strolled pet lions down Beacon Street." But don't let such intriguing facts about the lady let you lose sight of Gardner's most important role personally and historically: that of a patron and collector...
...pondered aloud, would the administration keep secret such a media "event," but then a kindly passer-by noted that Christo's fee for such an artistic "treatment" was undoubtedly equivalent to four years' tuition paid by the class of '96! No wonder the "patron of the arts" who heads Harvard kept the installation under wraps...
When Esteban the patron (Jeremy Irons) wakes up horny, saddles his horse and goes out to rape a peasant, you just know this isn't going to turn out to be an idle incident. A little later, when he is outraged at discovering his prepubescent daughter Blanca skinny-dipping with Pedro, his estancia foreman's son, you sense that moment too is going to have its consequences somewhere down the plot line. For from its opening frames, The House of the Spirits announces itself as one of those sagas in which there are no accidents, only portents of big-time...
...Bacall, every gangster, gunslinger and G.I. used cigarettes to emblematize their suavity, maturity, grit. Kids loved the lordly caterpillar in Disney's Alice in Wonderland, purring, "Whoooo are yooooo?" while blowing his Alpha-Bits smoke rings. For the college set, Jean-Paul Sartre and Edward R. Murrow were the patron saints of nicotine. F.D.R.'s cigarette, in a holder at a jaunty angle, proved him both a dapper patrician and a man of the people, while the . can-do bosses of the public weal sucked on fat cigars. Smoke-filled rooms gave us Social Security and the Marshall Plan...