Word: potters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chairman Henry Kissinger; former New Jersey Senator Nicholas Brady; Henry Cisneros; former Governor of Texas William Clements; Carlos Diaz-Alejandro; National Federation of Independent Business President Wilson Johnson; Lane Kirkland; Political Analyst Richard Scammon; Boston University President John Silber; retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart; Robert Strauss; Project HOPE President William Walsh...
...rarefied subject of algebraic topology. Midway through the doctoral program, he decided that mathematics would be too "lonely" a pursuit and enrolled in Harvard Law School. He finished magna cum laude in 1966, and a year later was selected as law clerk for now retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart...
...Cruz Smith managed two entertaining tricks in Gorky Park: he believably evoked the ordinary life of Moscow as a background to a mystery story, and he created a detective hero, Arkady Renko, who was persuasively motivated by neuroses in his pursuit of the solution to an ugly murder. Dennis Potter's adaptation vitiates both these strengths...
...variety in a given year without making the crowded circuit several times and squinting down at the labels. This is particularly frustrating, since the exhibition rooms, possibly suggesting the museum's priorities, are cramped and poky. One strategy might be to go over the catalogue (Clarkson N. Potter; $35), which contains chronological listings as well as a profusion of pictures...
...Guppy, Leah Fish, the Fox sisters, Malcolm Bird-the cast seems to have tumbled from Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. But the people were real, and their adventures are far more peculiar than any mere fable of talking animals and irate farmers...