Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebel forces are supported by nearly 1,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong advisers and they possess an impressive arsenal. While Hanoi provides most of this equipment, some diplomats in Phnom-Penh suspect that the Insurgents have still another source of supply -government officials and military officers who make a quick profit by selling the guerrillas American ammunition...
...Metropolitan Opera. It will be an event both long awaited and long overdue. Sills will be 45 when she steps onto the Met stage in Rossini's The Siege of Corinth, and the question is whether, at an age when many divas fade, she will still possess the fabulous voice and technique. The uncertainty exists because she does have occasional off nights, and may be performing too much for her own good. But she is a crowned pro who never cuts down, even at rehearsals, and virtually never cancels...
...they are trying to guess.) H.L. Mencken summarized the early views of the dubious when he wrote, "In plain language, Professor Rhine segregates all those persons who, in guessing the cards, enjoy noteworthy runs of luck, and then adduces those noteworthy runs of luck as proof that they must possess mysterious powers." Rhine tightened his laboratory conditions in the 1930s, and much of the criticism withered-but so did his ESP stars...
Tapestry was to northern Europe what fresco was to Italy, or the refulgent gold-leaf screens of the Momoyama period were to the dark castle interiors of 16th century Japan: the main form of large-scale decoration. Moreover, it had two advantages that fresco did not possess: a duke could change his hangings, and they warmed his drafty abode in winter. And yet the appetite for tapestries went beyond all questions of use and ornament. They were collected with manic extravagance. As the Cluny Museum's chief curator Francis Salet points out in his catalogue introduction, Philip the Good...
...happy young lovers at the final curtain. In the last act, the young wife, who has briefly left the old professor, remarks that on returning she feels like the ghostly Commendatore in Don Giovanni. As if by magic, the sunnier side of Mozart's spirit seems to possess Chekhov, and he awards men to his maids with the same amused, godlike detachment...