Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Specifically, it was Gene Purdy, playing on an all-new line with Bill Hozack and Murray (no, he isn't Ralph Malph's twin brother) Dea, who had a field day against the New Haveners...
...most beautiful cities, the capital is now one of the most blighted. Clouds of smoke from burning garbage, tortilla shops and public bathhouses-fortified by the rarefied oxygen at 7,347 ft.-make lung congestion almost epidemic and blot out the view of Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, the twin peaks between which Hernan Cortes advanced in 1519. Other urban areas-Guadalajara and Monterrey -are almost...
...centimes from more than two decades of scribbling. The reigning critic of the day, Sainte-Beuve, referred to Baudelaire as a translator and journalist rather than a poet. Small wonder the writer identified himself with that other 19th century comet, Edgar Allan Poe ("not a kindred spirit but a twin"), whose work he introduced to France. Indeed, Baudelaire made more money from his Poe translations than from his own poems, essays of self-scrutiny (Intimate Journals) and art criticism (The Painter of Modern Life...
...California, New West Managing Editor Dick Adler quit in favor of Executive Editor Frank Lalli, but he characterized his staffs mood as "stunned equanimity." The staff of New West, New York's younger twin, had struck briefly the previous week in support of the New Yorkers, but they have decided to stay-in part because they want their magazine to survive and in part because Murdoch's presence is much less immediate. "It's expected that Murdoch will be something of an absentee landlord," says one writer...
...company's takeover by Rupert Murdoch marks an important new addition to the largely sex-and-scandal press empire that Murdoch is building in Australia, Britain and the U.S. It also marks Murdoch's emergence as a major presence in U.S. journalism. Having committed roughly $45 million to his twin gambles within the past two months, Murdoch appears to control ample amounts of money, and, as he proved last week, he is accomplished at quick takeovers...