Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week this classic success story seemed headed for an unhappy ending. Smith, 74, and some of his closest associates found themselves at the receiving end of a double-barreled federal investigation...
...clear that the formal task is tied, as another part of the legacy of the modern French schools of painting to "the New York school," to a broader idea of "painterliness": For an American in Motherwell's position, to become a painter meant looking to France, to the formal success of its artists but also to their vaguely exotic, elegant charm...
...carnival atmosphere at Rosenblatt Stadium stands in sharp contrast with the hot somnolence of Saturday in downtown Omaha. And perhaps this is why the World Series has been a success for such a long time. For the people of Omaha the College World Series is an annual festival, bringing diversion and a chance for community involvement into the everyday routine of the other 51 weeks of the year...
...possible explanation of the sect's success in the U.S. is that the Guru Maharaj Ji is indeed (gulp) God. If this is an unpalatable hypothesis, there are more mundane explanations. Perhaps the attraction is to a group with all the psychic benefits of old-time religion, but without the stigma attached to them in a liberal society...
There Goes Rhymin' Simon brings Simon to the brink of self-indulgence; he's attempted a variety of styles and succeeded at them, but left his album with no context, except its lack of context. A large part of his success is due to the fact that Simon's fame has reached a point where he may indulge his creativity. He can command appearances by the Dixie Hummingbirds, move into Muscle Shoals, have his falsetto parts sung...