Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remember," "I don't recall." Listening to this performance for hours, even easy-going Irving Ives exploded. Shooting a grumpy glance down his nose at Hoffa, the New York Senator snorted that Jimmy had "one of the most convenient forgetteries of anybody I have ever seen ... By golly, you have not taken the Fifth, but you are doing a marvelous job crawling around...
...runs and covers the court better than any of the other women." Says Promoter Jack Kramer, who eventually would like to get Althea into the pro ranks: "She has the best chance to be a champ in the manner of Alice Marble that I've seen...
...other museums into parting with 200 treasures-Rembrandts, Cezannes, Picassos, etc.-for a Rhodesian show. The 200 oils and more than that number of graphic art pieces were flown across the equator in five well-packed planeloads. Said McEwen: "It is unlikely that such a show will ever be seen again in Africa because of the difficulties and the reluctance of overseas galleries to allow valuable works of art to travel so far afield...
These are the bones of the story, but it is fleshed with verbal luxuriance and approached by a dozen roads as twisted and surprising as the narrow alleyways in the dense Attarine Quarter. Justine is seen from many angles-through the despairing eyes of her first husband, in her own diary, through the cool and critical intelligence of Clea, a woman painter. Nessim discusses Justine endlessly; the Irish narrator seeks to define and grasp her attraction. Clea perhaps comes closest when she says: "After all Justine cannot be justified or excused. She simply and magnificently is; we have...
...sense, the book shows the face of a nation seen as in a mirage of 100 years of history. For Australia's story, as it is told in the school books to this day, is not one of national revolution or wars of liberation, but a simple narrative of what seekers and explorers found inside the place, in that fatal zero known to Australians as the "Dead Heart" of the continent...