Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tourney's Most Valuable Player award has gone to a Redman every year except 1979, when Michigan State's Jay Vincent earned the honor. This year's MVP, St. John's forward Shelton Jones, averaged 23 points and 12 rebounds per game...
When the gavel came down and the auctioneer said "Sold," the standing-room- only crowd at Sotheby's in New York City gasped, and then broke into applause. Vincent van Gogh's 1889 masterpiece Irises had just been bought by an unnamed foreign bidder for $53.9 million, the highest price paid for an artwork at auction...
...some experts remain gloomy. "The recession is here. It arrived Oct. 20, one day after the sharp plunge in world stock values," says Vincent Malanga, a Manhattan economic consultant. "That kind of market decline is bound to have an adverse effect on consumer confidence. People will borrow less, spend less and save more...
...sought help from any adult. Prosecutor Edward Jablonski and others are worried that sentences as lenient as Pierson's might prompt other abused children to seek revenge. More frightening is the possibility that some unbalanced children may use alleged abuse as a pretext for killing their parents. Says Judge Vincent J. Femia of Upper Marlboro, Md., who has handled several parricide cases: "In effect, the defendant can argue that he did something that should have been done for the community...
...half a century of FBI surveillance of more than 100 prominent American writers, including six Nobel laureates (Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill and John Steinbeck). The gumshoe lit crit was sometimes comically inept. FBI files, for example, described the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay as possibly subversive because she used the "analogy of the mole boring under the garden...