Word: souvenirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, during lengthy interviews with MacGraw and her husband in Manhattan, Cronin was further impressed, as was Researcher Michele Whitney, by Ali's essential simplicity and lack of glitter, the Teddy bears she adores, the wonderful junk that she collects-such things as silver-and-gold fans inscribed "Souvenir of the 1897 Exposition." To Film Critic Stefan Kanfer, who has been following Ali's career since she first appeared in Goodbye Columbus, her sudden leap to stardom is a classic example of "cinema inventing its own faces. When it needed the gritty reflection of urban reality, it found...
...President was obviously delighted and moved as he continued the farewell ceremony, presenting to Moynihan a replica of his Cabinet chair as a souvenir. Nixon reached into his own pocket for the $500 to buy the chair...
...merry-go-rounds are mostly idle; the train rarely makes the rounds of its tracks any more; the volume of mail trickled, then was shut off when the substation closed a year ago. Santa Claus, Calif., today is just an ordinary tourist attraction and the owner of a souvenir shop makes sure the tourists get what they want: "Here's a charm with California on one side, Santa Claus on the other. Kills two birds with one stone, and it's sterling...
...GEORGE JACKSON had not been charged with murder I would not have had the opportunity to read his letters. Not that his letters are of interest as a curio, a souvenir of the shooting; none of their importance derives from the shooting or the guard's death or his trial. But we would have never known of George Jackson if he had not been unjustly accused, if he had not become a cause , if his life as an inmate had not by a grotesque nexus of circumstances put him in touch with well connected white lawyers and prominent movement figures...
...these masterpieces. "This is essentially a picture book, the remarks beneath the reproductions are brief and to the point"; unfortunately the catalogue's words are too accurate. The shows makes no statement, so there is nothing on which the catalogue can comment or elaborate. The catalogue as 'appetizer or souvenir" hardly does justice to the depth of these masterpieces...