Word: pear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ensconced at the center of his maze of companies like a pear-shaped Minotaur, Lloyd seemed, until lately, to have created an impregnable position for himself. But next fall Marlborough goes to court to defend itself in a civil suit almost without precedent in the art world. The heirs of the late abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, together with the New York State attorney general, are charging that Marlborough and the executors of Rothko's estate conspired between them to defraud the estate by grossly undervaluing the paintings...
Whether what's coming is a West Texas farm boy playing Bach fugues on a cactus pear or the White House staff singing footlight favorites, you can bet your quadraphonic tape deck that Farrell and his competitors will be on hand, those contract-signing ballpoints at the ready...
...turned the manuscript over to the Southern Review. According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury was written in "that ecstasy, that eager and joyous faith and anticipation of surprise." It also contained, he said, the only scene "which would ever move me very much: Caddy climbing the pear tree to look in the window at her grandmother's funeral while Quentin and Jason and Benjy and the Negroes looked up at the muddy seat of her drawers...
...tallied first 24 minutes after the start of the game. The score came in a goalmouth scramble that ended with SMU forward Pimental pushing the ball pear the bewildered Harvard netminder Ben Bryan...
...apples, peaches, cherries and walnuts sparkle in brightly colored cans. The ducks are piled high. Chicken, smoked and pressed, sells at 70? for 1.1 Ibs. There are sausages, kidneys and spareribs for sale. The cookie counter bulges with goodies as does the fresh fruit display of apples, tangerines, pear apples, pineapples and oranges-all in the middle of winter...