Word: collector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King's fiancée; Baltsa stands out as Farnace, Mitridate's arrogant son. In La Clemenza, Baker's unique timbre and intensity fire the role of the vindictive Princess Vitellia, and Burrows is appropriately regal as the forgiving Emperor. These are definitely collector's items...
...spell of "Miss You" and defines the pace of the album from there on, "When the Whip Comes Down." Jagger shouts from amidst a dense barrage of guitars riffing, and tells the story of a gay man who tries to make it in the City as a garbage collector. As with so many of the Stones' rockers, the hook is Mick and Keith howling the chorus, the only clearly intelligible words...
...take a sabbatical every seven years; Bennington College, which has for four decades required its students to leave campus each winter and work for a term; or former Haverford President John R. Coleman, who once left his office and hired himself out for two months as a dishwasher, garbage collector, and in other unscholarly trades. Even more assuring is the case of Stanford Grad Margaret Doerr. She enrolled in the class of 1931 and finally graduated last August, a sprightly coed aged...
...first essays as a serious collector, however, were in the area of French impressionism, after the second World War. He began with "things we might want to live with in our houses and then, as time went on, since we knew we didn't have room for everything, I would buy things which I liked very much−or my wife did−with an eye to giving them eventually to the National Gallery." The collection, which runs from Degas to Matisse is one of the finest of its kind...
...services of six gardeners. After his death it began to decay. By 1966, when Monet's only surviving son-the reclusive Michel-died, the place had been closed to visitors, a shambles of rank growth and silted-up ponds. Recently, with a large grant from the U.S. collector Lila Acheson Wallace, the beds and ponds of Giverny were substantially restored; the work will take another two years to complete, but this fall the gardens will be opened to the public in something like their former exuberance...