Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increasingly busy public information switchboard at the Johnson Space Center, one of the most frequent questions from callers was whether pieces of Skylab would remain Government property and must be surrendered by their finders. "No," replied NASA'S Terry White. "We slammed the hatch on Skylab in 1974. Anyone can keep the pieces and put them on their coffee tables...
...music makes people nervous, that it's not what the average person likes to hear," Parker muses. "It's got blues, soul, a lot of different things in it." What gives the songs much of their spirit and a good deal of their body English is frequent adrenal shocks of anger. These dosages may be taken as a tonic at regular intervals, or they may be administered locally, as when Parker took in a recent concert by Ron Wood and the New Barbarians. He went for a lark but discovered the enemy: "A lot of guys with long...
...best-known portrait photographers; after a brief illness; in New York City. Born to Jewish parents in Latvia, Halsman spent ten years as a successful fashion photographer in Paris before fleeing to the U.S. in 1940, one step ahead of the Nazis. In New York, he became a frequent contributor to Look, the Saturday Evening Post and LIFE, for which he did more covers (101) than any other photographer. Three of his portraits-of Albert Einstein, John Steinbeck and Adlai Stevenson-appeared on postage stamps. These and others of John Kennedy and Winston Churchill are so indelible that one critic...
...students) to consider the morality of it all." That professor is Lyman Kirkpatrick, former executive director of the CIA and perhaps the most moral man ever to serve in a high echelon there. Moral considerations were central to the course, and moral discussions were so long and so frequent that someone half-jokingly suggested that the course be offered in the Philosophy Department. Welcome to journalism, fella...
...across the border in Germany. Durrell is still prone to overripe passages, but some of his audacious effects work memorably. He describes the madam of a French brothel sitting in her establishment, "enthroned in wigged splendour like a very very old ice cream of a deposed empress." At its frequent best, Livia offers a world of cool, dark enchantment...