Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first golden age its stages presented Sarah Bernhardt in Camille, Admiral Peary showing lantern slides of his discovery of the North Pole, Anna Pavlova dancing The Dying Swan and Enrico Caruso giving one of his final operatic performances. Changing times had made the Academy as outdated as the hobble skirt. Manhattan had taken over as the focal point for the arts in New York City; the Depression and a decline in the surrounding neighborhoods had turned the institution, economically, into a ward of the city. A decade ago, it was dozing along mostly with lectures and film programs...
...Nixon skirt other capital gains taxes in the sale of his New York City apartment in 1969? After winning the election, the President sold the Fifth Avenue co-op where he had lived while practicing law on Wall Street. The price was $312,500, or $142,912 more than his original purchase price plus the value of improvements and incidentals. The law allows homeowners to avoid such profits as long as they reinvest them within a year in another "principal residence." The President claimed that he had done so by using the $142,912 to help buy his San Clemente...
...here with a gray coat?" In recent years, a dark business suit has become acceptable, though the Solicitor General and his male staff members still represent the U.S. in cutaways and striped trousers. As for Deputy Solicitor General Jewel Lafontant, she has designed a cutaway-inspired jacket and striped skirt...
...Major General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 45, who was called out of retirement to lead the successful Israeli thrust across the Suez Canal that helped trap Egypt's Third Army. In interviews with reporters from the New York Times and Los Angeles Times that were filed from Rome to skirt the tough Israeli censors, Sharon charged that his superiors were not prepared for the war. The General amplified his accusations in yet another in- -terview with American University Professor Amos Perlmutter: "The Southern Command collapsed completely in the first two days," said Sharon. "Bar-Lev [Lieut. Gen. Haim...
...others it's a trip back to when they dressed like that. A girl goes and finds an old gray skirt with pink poodles on it or puts her hair like she used to put it. It's the whole nostalgia trip--that's why it's an event, because people want to become part of this for that night...