Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ghazi al-Qusaibi, 37, Minister of Industry and Electricity, received his master's degree in international relations from the University of Southern California. A big, round-faced man, Qusaibi wears thick-lensed glasses because, as he explains, "when I was a child in Al Hasa province, I almost went blind as we had no medical facilities." He presides over the single largest industrial project in history: the construction of an $11 billion gas-gathering project that will take the natural gas flared away at Saudi wells and liquefy it for shipment abroad...
...over the hamlet of Ecône in French Switzerland last week as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre reached the point of no return in his "traditionalist" insurrection against the Pope of Rome. Some 4,000 Western European followers had flocked in by bus and train, along with 80 priests from round the world. As they sat on wooden benches and freshly mowed grass, the white-haired archbishop delivered a defiant, Luther-like sermon...
...days went by, Wimbledon's green grass courts became an elephant's graveyard for international stars such as Rod Laver, 38, who was eliminated by Dick Stockton in three sets in the first round; Ilie Nastase, 30, victim of his own bad behavior and Borg's precisely controlled passing shots; and Billie Jean King, 33, slowed by knee surgery, who fell to Chris Evert, 22, in the quarterfinals. The record-breaking and-by Wimbledon's well-bred standards-surprisingly rowdy crowds adopted as their darling a 14-year-old, pigtailed Californian named Tracy Austin. The youngest...
...once round the corner of 1950, the exhibition nosedives into farce. All trace of method evaporates. Its level of historical understanding is so low as to be, in a sense, beyond criticism. There is, for example, no doubt that the main change in modern sculpture-the shift from solid (cast, carved or modeled) to open, constructed form-was largely worked out between Europe and America by the way in which the metal constructions of Gonzalez and Picasso, in the 1930s, provoked David Smith's welded sculptures in the U.S. after World War II. The consequences of the change were...
...basis of the only two half-hour episodes that have been produced, it is difficult to see new cause for outrage in Soap-though certainly no harder than finding evidence of sophisticated adult farce. The plot revolves around two middle-aged sisters and their families in suburban Round Hill, Conn. Mary Campbell (Cathryn Damon) struggles to stay afloat in the middle class. Her husband (Richard Mulligan) is impotent; her younger son would like to be her daughter. "He's sick!" rages the husband. "So am I," says Mary. "He looks better in that dress than...