Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innovated and magnificent that describing it is an invitation to platitudes. Made by wonder-kid Orson Welles while he was still in his early 20's, Citizen Kane both secured its maker a reputation as a film genius and made him an industry pariah for pursuing the taboo topic. In the title role, Welles is terrific and it is just impossible to reconcile the image of him as the megalomaniac Kane with that of the ursine talk-show regular and Californian wine salesman...
Masters said this week that the alcohol topic was "of great concern," and they expect extensive discussions on the subject. But William H. Bossert, master of Lowell House, said, "The fact is the more we talk about it, the more restrictive we have...
...took Hoving three years of plotting and research to authenticate the ivory cross, establish its background, and pry it out of the hands of its owner, a shady and cunning Yugoslav named Topic Mimara...
...probably war loot, and Topic Mimara kept it (where else?) in a Zurich bank vault, while he lived (where else?) in Tangier. It was stored with a mass of fakes and rubbish that he also wanted to sell to the Met. It was very expensive at $600,000, an unheard-of price for a medieval object 20 years ago. But as Hoving reasoned, with the delicate sense of public relations that would mark his career at the Met, "Medieval art might be accorded a certain cachet by the expenditure of a stratospheric sum." Other museums, especially British ones, were after...
There were two very important things that didn't happen during Ike's years in the White House. The U.S. didn't get into any war, anywhere. And inflation was barely a topic of conversation. It averaged 1.4% a year from...