Word: words
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Hollywood, Debbie Reynolds hopefully reached for the last word. Said she: "I'm sure you're all exhausted by this topic as much...
...largest auction house, handling paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, stamps, etc.; in Mt. Airy, Pa. Parke brought down his hammer on some of the most grandiose sales in art history. Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures as the manuscript of the Gettysburg Address and a lock of George Washington's hair...
...strong support for his proposals both on Capitol Hill and at the White House. Louisiana Democrat Hale Boggs, author of a House bill to cut corporate taxes on foreign earnings from 52% to 38%, promised a "warm welcome" from Congress for the report. And from Administration officials came word that the White House will endorse much...
Taste of Sorrow. Author Simon's harsh, hard-blowing prose suggests, in the oblique way of poetry, the wind he writes of. A member of France's school of New Realists (TIME. Aug. 4; Oct. 13), he sprawls 1,000-word sentences, nested with concentric sets of parenthetical statements and restatements, across four-page expanses of type. The flow of words, like the wind, halts for a moment, then rushes on, engulfing a stabbing or a casual conversation with the same intensity. Simon rewrites without editing (a mouth is "closed again immediately afterwards, or rather pursed again...
...Last Word (CBS, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). Broadway's Abe Burrows and Commander Whitehead, at sea with Schweppes, bend the language with Dr. Bergen Evans and John Mason Brown...