Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...integrated circuit nearly malfunctioned over the review of my worth as an electronic toy. My play value is for children and comes not from using my arms and legs "like a true robot," but from the science-fiction fantasy inspired by my electronic audio and visual effects...
This wouldn't have happened if Mayor Daley were still alive." So Chicagoans console themselves when things go wrong, and last week, it is true, the late Richard J. Daley would scarcely have recognized his beloved city. A transit workers' strike stranded a million commuters and temporarily disrupted the city's economy. A walkout by oil delivery truck drivers caused a gasoline shortage. For the first time, the city's firemen voted to authorize a strike. And the school system, the nation's third largest, was on the verge of bankruptcy and in danger...
That may be an exaggeration. The wealthy and the powerful have invested in art from time immemorial, though it is true that the great collections have been amassed by acquisitors possessed of taste and love for the objects they buy. They have not generally been dis couraged by hard times. On the contrary, in recessions and depressions and inflations, the smart ones tend to liquidate stocks, bonds and real estate and thus have all the more cash to invest in other fields. Like art. Given the scar city of beautiful things and the insatiable demand for them, the sales will...
...House Counsel Lloyd Cutler and Jerrold Schecter, Brzezinski's press secretary, to get the facts. On Powell's summons, Post Style Section Editor Shelby Coffey arrived with a lawyer. The paper printed its retraction the next day. (Many of the characterizations in Quinn's series are true. Though known as an exemplary husband and father, Brzezinski is notoriously vain and flirtatious...
Whatever happened or did not happen in the bedroom, Mary was not a large part of Barrie's life. His chief attachments were reserved for male youths. Finally, in the late '90s, he met and, in effect, married his true love: the Davies family. Arthur Davies was a successful barrister, his wife Sylvia a woman of memorable vivacity. They had five sons, each as perfect in his way as David had been so long ago. Slowly, almost insidiously, the playwright enveloped them with his charm and money. All but one of the boys adored Barrie and his tales...