Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baron, as he was known, turned Dillon, Read & Co. from a struggling Wall Street company into one of nation's largest investment firms and retired with a personal fortune of nearly $1 billion...
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Best of all, she makes her disreputable old father seem oddly heroic and their life together, despite the troubles, a comic romp. To read The Pianoplayers is to understand Ellen's observation, gleaned from watching those music-hall routines at Blackpool, on the infectious quality of laughter: "Once an audience starts they'll go on all night...
...Matisse's own. The modulation of silvery grays (jug of water, belly of sole) with a few touches of red within the ambient - darkness of Still Life, Fish and Lemons, 1921, accentuates a lesson Matisse had learned from Manet: that black, far from signifying the absence of color, can read as a suave and powerful hue. Matisse's work, seen in this concentration, proves once more that in painting, innovation means nothing without a vital sense of the past. "I have simply wished to assert," he used to tell his students, echoing Courbet, "the reasoned and independent feeling...
...California State University at Long Beach, the administration has taken no action. "We feel that our students are intelligent enough when they read an editorial that they know who wrote the editorial and what it represents," said Eugene L. Asher, executive assistant to the president. UMASS-AMHERST COLLEGE...