Word: um
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...IKCHAN UM...
...desire on every living creature in the world." Warren Beatty, studiously guttural as the overzealous therapist who notes that his patient looks just like his mother, has difficulty explaining his dilemma to the chief psychiatrist. "Do you think she's trying to seduce you?" asks the doctor. "Um . . . you can't put it like that," mumbles Warren. The doctor puts it another way: "It isn't unknown for patients to seduce personnel, and vice versa." And he gamely adds, "I think all of us here are concerned with rapture in some way." That...
...revenooers are shutting the life-interest loophole. In the future, no deduction may be taken until the art work is physically ceded to a museum or charitable institution. But most muse um directors are not alarmed by the new law, even though donations may be delayed for years. For the IRS has increased the incentive to give now, adding 10% to the former 20% deductible from gross income. At 30%, museums stand on an equal footing with hospitals and educational institutions in soliciting gifts. And some museum directors pondered whether they might still not rent back donated paintings to givers...
Rude Awakening. No African leader had seemed more secure than pro-Gaullist Mba (pronounced um-bah), who won a 99.6% mandate...
...dropped in on an upper Broadway auto agency and decided on five Cadillacs in as many minutes. A note-taking aide asked, "Five Cadillacs, Your Majesty?" Replied Hassan, "Um . . . yes, five." His biggest field day was at the Fieldcrest textile showroom, where he bought so fast and furiously that salesmen had to send out for more order pads. While inspecting samples, King Hassan's face would light up or turn somber as he pronounced his verdicts of "Très distingué!" or "Passé." The King was said to "adore prints" and bought a total...