Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glorious hours yesterday. It looked like Cliffies might at last be allowed to walk through the front door of Lamont, leave the staircase at any floor, and maybe even use the books. But it never happened...
...three times a month. Artists come in droves, as students to sketch everything from Renaissance Madonnas to abstract collages, as established painters to perfect. Dutch-born Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, who haunted the Met as a young man, says: "The greatest thrill of my life is to walk from the Rembrandt rooms and find my Easter Monday hanging on the wall...
...wouldn't park my car across the river and walk all the way over there to get it," Vellucci replied...
...sanctuary of numbered accounts. Only two or three bank officers usually know the true identity of the depositors. The bankers also assign false names to all such depositors (obtaining a specimen signature of the alias) so that nobody can present a lucky string of numbers to a teller and walk away with a secret fortune. Any banker who violates what the law calls "his duty to observe silence or professional secrecy" faces a fine of up to $4,000 and six months in jail; so well disciplined are Swiss bankers that no case has ever reached a federal court...
...account of Dietrich and the Svengali-Trilby relationship that produced The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express and The Devil Is a Woman is pitiably bitter. While other stars complained of Sternberg's cruel direction, Marlene loyally praised the very hardships he put her through, as when he made her walk barefoot across the blazing desert while filming Morocco with Gary Cooper. But to Sternberg this was no more than a deliberate plot designed by Dietrich to gain public admiration for herself and to shower abuse on him. He recognizes some talent in her, chiefly an ability to follow direction...