Word: sou
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when John Spagnola wrestled Pat O'Brien's wing-and-a-prayer aerial from the hands of Harvard's Fred Cordova, the very sou! of Crimson football winced at the mortal wound. Cordova dropped to the turf in a heap, unable to move under the weight of the crushing frustration...
...difficult in such a complex community as a college campus. The usual concerns about objectivity and accuracy are compounded by the very nearness of the subject: deans and professors and administrators form part of a larger community from which the reporter cannot escape, even for a moment's journalistic sou-searching. The student reporter, try as he might to keep a cool head, often cannot: for by definition, "big news," the stories that affect the most students, will touch him or her directly. Objectivity looms as the first casualty...
...history paintings, Vigee-Lebrun in France for her sparkling and elegant society portraits, like that of Varvara Ivanovna Narishkine (1800). By her 35th year, Vigee-Lebrun reckoned, she had earned more than a million francs with her brush, a prodigious income for a painter, and her husband spent every sou on whores and gambling...
...writer of rigorously reasoned essays, she stripped rhetoric down to cold realities. Most of her opinions were out of fashion with the European liberals of her generation. Like the child in The Emperor's New Clothes, she early on proclaimed the naked truth that there was not a sou's worth of difference between Stalin and Hitler...
...project is being funded without a sou from a synagogue or a church. A straight commercial venture, it is backed by 18 wealthy businessmen, most of them British and American, who have already anted up $5 million. The startup money came from John Heyman, 43, a self-described "inactive Jew," who has produced more than 40 feature films, including The Go-Between and The Hireling. Now he works full time as chief executive of the Genesis Project: "It was a unique opportunity to share my ability as a film maker as opposed to putting on another piece of slurp...