Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sir," was all I said. I walked out with fire in my eyes. I unloaded on both Dean and Magruder. "What's going...
...lack of space, the Met so far has been unable to show more than one-third of its rich 19th century holdings. Now, with so much floor area at his disposal, Sir John Pope-Hennessy, chief of the Met's Department of European Paintings, has arranged a survey of the century's progress that is unmatched anywhere. The central space is devoted to the century's culminating stylesimpressionism and postimpressionism. With 13 flanking galleries, he could give one to Courbet alone, three to Degas, others to Millet and the Barbizon School. Besides a solid representation...
...money supply as the golden elixir for economic health-flows through every line of the Thatcher government's budget for 1980. The proposed budget, which is virtually assured of passage, was presented last week to a grim session of the House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe, and the reactions it produced ranged from apprehension to bitterness...
...careful to preserve a spontaneous sound that just skirts being primitive. The groups rock a little harder than their forebears too. "We were the first band which wanted to combine punk and reggae," says Jerry ("General Dankey") Dammers of the Specials, "because we liked them both." Bass Player Horace ("Sir Horace Gentleman") Panter adds, "Both were rebel music." Notes Jerry: "Humble beginnings, what...
...most hostile wastes for nearly 50 years with little more than the native garb on his back, some medicines, a few books, a camera and a rifle. Thesiger, now almost 70 and based in Kenya, is the last of the exotic British adventurer-writers whose exclusive number included Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence. These chameleons assumed the language, dress and habits of their tribal hosts for deeply emotional as well as practical reasons. "Like many English travelers," Thesiger confesses, "I find it difficult to live for long periods with my own kind...