Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder if, in fact, it might not have been one of the more aggressive members of the Washington press corps disguised as a rabbit-sort of a wolf in rabbit's clothing...
Your article on the International Labor Organization child slavery report [Sept. 10] was a real eye opener. I felt it unfair when I was asked to look for a job at age 15, yet I wonder what my reaction would have been as a five-year-old without any choice...
...year ago, Steven Straw was a boy wonder of the art dealers' world. At 26, he owned a highly successful gallery in Newburyport, Mass., full of Oriental rugs, antiques and such masters as Degas, de Kooning and O'Keeffe. He flew around the country in his private Cessna 414 putting together six-figure art deals...
...Little wonder, then, that San Francisco treated Pavarotti as the top attraction in La Gioconda, although the tenor role is not exactly the lead. Local hostesses vied for his exuberant presence at their parties. A dealer lent him a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud for ins seven-week stay. Between socializing and vocalizing, Pavarotti jetted to Los Angeles for one of his periodic jousts with Johnny Carson on the Tonight show. When he had free time, he took to the tennis court. A surprisingly graceful Gargantua, he is quick on his feet and gets about as much English on the tennis...
...that he took at Harvard in the late 1940s, and his fiction has continued to radiate qualities dear to the hearts of academic critics: fractured narrative lines, surrealistic landscapes surrounded by the chiaroscuro of despair, irony, symbols galore and, most important, a self-conscious sense of being difficult. Small wonder that so much of his work has seemed to move straight from printing press to college syllabus. Yet it has never been necessary to go to school to acquire a taste for Hawkes. At its best his writing is vividly accessible, and almost always disturbing. His recurrent subject...