Word: spate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outsider might have been forgiven for thinking that the sudden spate of problems constituted a severe blow to the new Prime Minister's prestige and a considerable test of his strength. They did, up to a point. But Shastri took the attacks with bland equanimity, explaining that there was no point in getting overexcited-or even in shouting back at his foes. "Democracy would break down if we started shouting from the benches," he shrugged...
Round 2 of the networks' convention coverage opens this week with a spate of background specials leading up to the Democratic Convention at Atlantic City beginning next Monday. NBC handily won Round 1 with an estimated 55% share of the total Republican Convention audience...
...give a damn about posterity," declared Composer Kurt Weill. "I write for today." Nonetheless, since Weill's death in 1950, his catchy, sophisticated music (September Song, Mack the Knife, Alabama Song) has inspired a fiercely devoted following in the U.S. and abroad and prompted a spate of memorial record albums and revivals, most memorably the phenomenal off-Broadway production (2,707 performances) of his Threepenny Opera...
...spate of exhibits over the past two years, including a showing at this summer's Venice Biennale, and major sales to private collectors and galleries, including one for the sculpture garden at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, have drawn Ipousteguy to the top rank of France's sculptors. Now 44, he gravitated to sculpture after years as a painter and grade-school art teacher, a job he kept until two years ago. He turned to sculpture in 1949 because "with its denser aspects it is more suitable to my expression, which is often closer to sadness...
That moment alone explains, perhaps, why Zulu is currently raking in more pounds sterling than any other film in the history of British cinema. After a spate of "kitchen dramas" filled with whining social protest, Zulu's bloodbath refreshes the spirit with its straightforward celebration of valor, tenacity and honor among...