Word: russel
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...freshman from New Jersey and the heroine of Victoria Silver's latest addition to the genre of Harvard fiction. Before one fateful Wednesday in November, the most serious question that plagues Lauren during her Russian Revolution seminar is which of its 11 students is the most attractive. But then Russel Bernard, the star of both the seminar and Lauren's personal musings, is murdered and his body thrown into the Charles, in a manner that bizarrely recalls the murder of Rasputin discussed in her last seminar meeting. And on this clue alone, Lauren, with the help of a roommate...
Because the actual licensing process is controlled by the Commonwealth, the nine-member body asked City Councilor Russel B. Higley to draw up a "home rule" petition to be submitted to the state legislature for final approval...
...post-Hemingway adventurer like Russel Price (Nick Nolte) does not, of course, permit himself to articulate such aspiring thoughts. With his thick voice, his beefy former jock's build and his wary-passive manner, Nolte plays Price (very authentically) as a man who is all reflexes of the single-lens variety. The big picture in Nicaragua, as the Somoza regime yields to the Sandinistas in 1979, means little to Price, who is portrayed as being on assignment for TIME; he is more concerned with the succession of little moneymakers he must try to capture as they flee past...
This reciprocal inspiration was replayed in the 1950s, when the Japanese resurrected their industry and invited such leading American industrial designers as Russel Wright and Jay Doblin to teach them modern design. Now Japanese architects and designers are returning the visit...
With few exceptions, Wright's pieces still look good-not elegant or sophisticated like a Barcelona chair, but pleasing and "user friendly." They remain contemporary, a word often used in Wright's heyday partly to overcome the prevailing resistance to "modern" and partly because, like Danish furniture, Russel Wright designs were different in spirit from the work introduced by New York City's Museum of Modern...