Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court could find that an inquest is not designed to deal with the extraordinarily publicized Kennedy case and that any action must be left to a grand jury-an inquiry held in secret. District Attorney Dinis, however, would prefer to avoid a grand jury investigation, since he himself would be in charge and the press would be excluded...
Subtler souls might prefer other Matusow tactics-like erasing the magnetic coding on their personal checks by running the code numbers under an electromagnet. "The effect," he says, "is that your checks will not be processed by the automatic sorting device. Someone at the bank will have to handle them personally. But after all, it's your money, and it should get the loving care it deserves...
Though Pearson thrived on the vitriol in his professional life, in his private life he was a pleasant and gentle man, a Quaker with a sense of humor. For his epitaph, he said he would prefer not a remembrance of his fame as an enemy of rascals but of his less well-known role as the organizer of the Friendship Train, which sent $40 million worth of food to postwar France and Italy in 1947, and as the rebuilder of a Tennessee high school that was bombed...
Relevant Antiquity. Fellini and Cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno (who also shot Toby Dammit) used tons of smoke, incense and cement dust to reproduce a sense of murky antiquity. Yet there is little doubt that, in scenes like the death of a patrician couple who prefer suicide to inevitable political assassination, Fellini is attempting to render this vast fresco as a giant metaphor for the 1960s. "If Petronius' work is a full-blooded description of the atmosphere of those times," Fellini admits, "the film that I adapted from it is a panorama, an allegorical satire of our present-day world...
Anonymous Sculpture. The Bechers' interest in photographing what most people prefer to forget has understandably raised many a questioning eyebrow. "The hardest thing when I first started was getting permission," says Bernhard. "They thought I was crazy." Descended from coal miners and steel workers, Becher came to his interest in industrial relics naturally. At first he pursued a painting career, soon found that the sights that captivated him were factories, machinery, construction sites...