Word: rounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayoralty campaign between John E. Powers, president of the Massachusetts Senate, and John F. Collins, Suffolk County's Register of Probate, the issue of a dying city has nearly been forgotten. The campaign's chief feature, aside from a daily round of recriminations, is a simple pun, which Collins works to exhaustion...
...Another round in the perpetual battle over parietal hours will be fired next week when a Student Council committee urges "a complete reevaluation of the system on the basis of undergraduate dating habits...
...round as a hoot owl's eye, the hunter's moon rose in its full phase last week, and political hunters by the score burst into feverish bush beating, suddenly aware that the season was all too short. The first crucial presidential primary-New Hampshire's on March 8-was barely 20 weeks away. The gavel would call the Democratic convention to order in Los Angeles in less than nine months, with the Republican convention in Chicago only two weeks behind. And soon after the hunter's moon of 1960 had waned to a sliver...
...again-Stranger on the Prowl (1953) was his last picture-and the folksy, matzo-barrel humor is fun. Unfortunately, the picture tells Sam's story for only 20 minutes or so. The rest of the time (about 80 minutes) the audience watches a big wheel (David Wayne) go round in circles trying to get Sam to appear on television and talk pretty for the people. Sam himself makes the only adequate comment on all this. He gets so sick and tired of the television types that he drops dead...
...bare tree in the background hover the Philistines, ready to pounce upon the sheared ram of God. Watteau's study of lovers in a park makes black, white and red stand for all the colors of the rainbow. In Watteau, love and laughter blend into one. To round the gallery corner to Goya's Two Prisoners in Irons can be like taking a header off a cliff. Unlike the monster-painters, whose malformed "images of man" are the latest art fad (TIME, Sept. 7), Goya made the victims of inhumanity-in this case, obviously a chained father...