Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Costakis, nearing his 65th birthday in July, is the son of a Greek tobacco merchant who moved to Moscow before the revolution. He started his collection in 1948 by buying antique Russian silver and paintings by conventional artists. He soon tired of that and shifted to the avantgarde. He had very little money. Even today he earns no more than $8,500 a year as an administrative officer in charge of Russian employees at Moscow's Canadian Embassy. But in the beginning, he recalls, "this kind of art -including Chagall and Kandinsky -was selling at a very low price...
...directed, Anne Strassner as Beatriz sometimes slips into reciting when acting poetry. Strassner is a Beatriz without innocence, more a Coppelia than a New Eve with her shoulders drooping and her tinge of petulance. She is as at her best at the end as she gulps from a silver vial that is supposed to redeem her poisonous blood--even though it seems to contradict her intent in the preceding speech...
Wolf has an advantage in the backstroke because last year's Olympic silver medalist in the 100 and 200-yard backstroke events, Berkeley's Peter Roccam will not be able to compete because of mononucleosis...
Canales's first major win came at the 1968 Central American Games, when he was competing in the ten-and-under age group. In that meet, Canales grabbed a silver medal in the 200-meter individual medley...
...Paco brought home six medals--three silver and three bronze--for Puerto Rico in international competition...