Word: ryder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill calling for such compensation has been dormant in the House since it was introduced four years ago by Rep. Joe De Nucci (D-Newton) on the urging of Northeastern President Kenneth Ryder and Newton Mayor Ted Mann...
...played the austere, ironic butler in Arthur, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1982, and he was Charles Ryder's comically aloof father in TV's Brideshead Revisited. But he was also, to give only a partial list, the anti-Semitic Cambridge don in Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx...
Northeastern University President Kenneth G. Ryder, acting chairman of the commission, said afterwards that he foresees "a gigantic tension of opposing views" ahead before the group can agree on recommendations...
...potentially abstract painter who could not quite summon up the courage to drop content was one of the minor illusions of the '60s. Avery was uncompromisingly a figurative artist, like his mentors: Matisse and to some extent Picasso in Europe, and in America such painters as Ryder (with his visionary seascapes) and Twachtman. What his best works offer is a very American sense of Arcadia, a hard-won paradise of the natural world reconstructed in terms of color. Shape is reduced to the minimum: some flat silhouettes, relatively little internal texture...
...panel which also included Kenneth G. Ryder, president of Northeastern University and Barbara Turnow, incoming president of the state association of financial aid directors endorsed a bill currently before the legislature that would increase state aid by boosting excise taxes on cigarettes. The legislation provides $28 million for student grants and loans, and would make 7000 more students eligible for the money...