Word: roland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...completed only this summer, at a cost of nearly $10 million. Great care was taken to preserve the original palatial sand-colored structure and to hide, as well as possible, the air- conditioning and security devices. "It will look simple when we're finished," Architect Roland Simounet told Israel Shenker in Art News, "despite all the work and all the hours. People will wonder what we've been doing all this time." They found out last week, during a series of official openings. In the first wave came French President Francois Mitterrand and representatives of the rival branches of Picasso...
...Swimming Coach Joe Bernal has seven experienced swimmers joining his squad: backstroker Roland Wagner, the Swiss national champion; Olympic qualifier Scott Hoy from Australia; sprinters Keith Kaplan of Mattapan, N.J., and Bob Morrison of Portland, Ind.; Paul Ryder, an all-around swimmer from Servana Park, Md.; distance swimmer Mike Caverly of Lacadia, Ca.; and Robert Perkins, a backstroker from Middlebrook...
...Swimming Coach Joe Bernal has seven experienced swimmers joining his squad: backstroker Roland Wagner, the Swiss national champion; Olympic qualifier Scott Hoy from Australia; sprinters Keith Kaplan of Mattapan, N.J., and Bob Morrison of Portland, Ind.; Paul Ryder, an all-around swimmer from Servana Park, Md.; distance swimmer Mike Caverly of Lacadia, Ca.; and Robert Perkins, a backstroker from Middlebrook...
...earnest of its cosmopolitan reach. And so Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer brought their suavity from France; Marlene Dietrich (Germany), Hedy Lamarr (Austria) and Ingrid Bergman (Sweden) helped Garbo flesh out the fantasy of the European woman. From south of the border Carmen Miranda brought her fruity headdresses, Gilbert Roland his purring machismo. Half of England, it seemed, played cricket every Sunday in Griffith Park. And with bitter thanks to Adolf Hitler, Hollywood welcomed hundreds of refugees from the Third Reich. As performers, writers, directors or technicians, they would animate and dominate Hollywood for its next 30 years...
...Roland W. Force, director of the Indian museum, said he had no guarantees that the state or the city could produce the funds Cuomo and Koch had promised, since they are subject to legislative approval...