Word: vies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forte is music, not films. Nonetheless, last week in Paris, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, 81, received an honorary Oscar for his contributions (the dialogue and the music) to L'Amour de la Vie, a movie based on reminiscences of his life. Asked if the pianist could also be considered an actor, Gregory Peck, an Oscar winner himself (To Kill a Mockingbird in 1963), who presented the statuette to Rubinstein, replied: "Good Lord, yes. He's a much better actor than...
...teams were blessed with more and more All-Ivy selections each season. There were runners like Bill Grana, Bobby Leo. Vie Gatto, and Ray Horn blower: defensemen like Don Chiofaro, Dave Poe, John Tyson, John Hoffman, and John Emery...
White-marble slave girls languish alongside posturing tragedy heroines and cherubic children. Emanuel Leutze's classic, Washington Crossing the Delaware, looms in its full-size 264-sq.-ft. version. Tiffany lamps and cut-glass bowls of dazzling intricacy vie with gingerbread mantelpieces. At first glance the Metropolitan Museum's gargantuan exhibition of 19th century American art, architecture and decoration seems about as serious an undertaking as a rainy afternoon spent in grandmother's attic. On second look, it proves to be a well-planned, scholarly survey of an oft-disparaged, still underestimated century...
Junior Mark Faller is in Evanston, Ill., today to vie with the nation's best 158-pound wrestlers for a prize that eluded Harvard matmen throughout the '60's, the NCAA championship...
...Cabinet meets, and in a session of surrealistic gravity the members vie with one another to produce the mendacious explanation that will link the tragic event to the worldwide Communist conspiracy. Scarcely has this problem been resolved when another arises. The President's troublesome liberal-minded wife is stabbed to death with the headless golf shaft that held a "Make Love, not War" placard. With the election only six weeks away, the President (Peter Bonerz) has no time for grief and after another Cabinet conclave the cause of death proves to be Communist food poisoning. That's about...