Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like Sir Basil, today's salesmen sometimes try to fill their order books by playing one nation against the other. "What I like doing," admitted a European arms salesman visiting Colombia, "is selling one weapon here in Bogota and then going off to Caracas to sell them the antidote." The most successful modern practitioners of this ploy seem to be the fleet-footed French, who first sold the Exocet antiship missile to Peru's leftist dictatorship in 1973, then leaked the news to neighboring Chile, whose rightist leaders became so jittery that they too bought the missile...
Fuseli was actually neither Turk nor Jew, but Swiss; he was born Johann Heinrich Fiissli in Zurich in 1741, the son of a portrait painter. By 1825, when he died, he had become one of the most distinguished exiles in English art history; he was even buried next to Sir Joshua Reynolds in St. Paul's. Last week, to mark the 150th anniversary of his death, a show of more than 200 Fuselis-oils, engravings and drawings-opened at London's Tate Gallery...
...would be hard to improve on Sir Kenneth Clark's account of Fuseli's ambition: he wanted "to render the most dramatic episodes of Shakespeare in the pictorial language of Michelangelo." Fuseli was not a painter when he went to England in 1764, but a young Zwinglian minister whose liberal ideas had driven him out of Zurich. His intransigence grew with time, ripening into the melancholy sarcasm that was one of his more noted traits. "He is everything in extremes-always an original," wrote Fuseli's close friend, the physiognomist Lavater. "His look is lightning, his word...
...they,' " suggested Devine as Dennis looked over a schedule of future Notre Dame games. The senior Grindingers and two of Dennis' younger brothers laughed nervously. Then Dennis said shyly, "I think I could see myself saying that, sir." A smile flashed across Boulac's face. "In that case," joked Devine, "I'd better teach you the Irish fight song." In a moment the family was arrayed around Dennis and his mother at the piano as Devine directed a spirited rendition of the old tune. When the coaches departed two hours later, Boulac said...
...dead mouse in his fist. Drugger (Denis Pelli) is an honest tob acconist who wants his shop to prosper; Pelli stammers and shuffles cringingly enough, but it's a little disturbing to see Jonson make fun of someone simply because he's not too bright and wants to prosper. Sir Epicure Mammon (Spito Veloudos) has always been the character in the play I most identify with (I was typecast to play him in a high-school production), Veloudos is drunk with his own words, his ecstatic visions of gluttony. All his appetites--gustatory and sexual--are to be fulfilled...