Word: tanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...train outdoors," added Sweetser, "so we get the extra benefit of a nice tan on our backs...
...view as one enters is the avenue, plunging down the main axis and flanked on either side by raised terraces clad in squares of soft, tan-gray Burgundian limestone. The avenue is for monumental sculpture (some very monumental indeed, like the huge stone original of Carpeaux's La Danse, a copy of which decorates the facade of the Paris Opera). It finishes in a pair of windowless double-cube towers, containing smaller galleries, set against the glass end wall. Inside the terraces, left and right, are enclosed galleries. On top of these are two smaller "streets" for sculpture...
...Reagan still doesn't know. From the sounds coming out of the ranch, he slept through the whole thing. We did our job. I got a tan, got a little reading done, and, well, served my President and my country. We can all feel a little more secure--the President is napping...
...recalls the job that finally did her father in, a pianoplaying marathon in Blackpool, Ellen tries to give some sense of Billy's repertoire during his last 15 days at the keyboard; several pages of song titles follow, including Beethoven's Mignonette in G, the Pilgrim's Chorus from Tan Houser and Pomp and Circumference March. The sharpie who egged Billy on to this fatal enterprise was named Jeremiah Feldfloh, which Ellen has trouble getting right; she tries Flyblow, Fieldflow, Freeflow, Feelflo, Fallfly, Flowflaw and numerous other permutations, most suggesting the evanescence of entrepreneurship...
...real estate developer who chairs the party's 1988 convention- site-selection committee. A man fond of speaking in large sums ("We could pledge $6 million to $8 million in a minute"), Landow, 53, looks the part of a big moneyman with his gold Rolex, monogrammed shirt and perpetual tan. More important, Landow delivers: he collected $1.25 million for Walter Mondale...