Word: si
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constantly alive with seamstresses and customers exchanging confidences about fittings, and cluttered with bolts of satins and silks, ribbons and pattern snippings. In this homely setting, Vuillard, who derisively referred to himself as "the in-timist," fashioned vignettes of quiet domesticity that suggest a less radiant, fin de siècle Vermeer...
...will certainly have a say in Norton Simon Inc. When the new company's stock, which will be swapped for Hunt, McCall and Canada Dry shares, begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the man commanding the biggest block of Norton Simon Inc. shares will be Norton Si mon himself. At a likely price of around $40 a share, the collection of Norton Simon Inc. stock certificates controlled by Simon and his family stands to be worth about $70 million...
...si j'étais une saucisse Oscar Mayer...
...fire or demolished, the 66-room manse that he did for Baron van Eetvelde, Belgium's first Governor of the Congo, is preserved much as Horta left it. Moreover, in the annex of the hotel lives Architect Jean Delhaye, a kind of one-man Belgian fin de siècle society who is directing the reconstruction of the home Horta built for himself in Brussels, so that it can open next fall as a museum...
Till then, Suliotis' performance had been uneven: ravishing in some spots, somewhat ravaging in others. As the second act got under way, her vocal lines became tangled with Soprano Nancy Tatum's in a tricky cabaletta, Si, fino all'ore, estreme; she reached for a high C, missed, and hid her face behind her arm in chagrin. A sour chorus of boos accompanied her exit. Suddenly, in the middle of the act, the lights went up again and the orchestra filed offstage, leaving the audience murmuring in confusion. Suliotis had asked for an unscheduled intermission in order...