Word: adorn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...melodrama in Frances Farmer's life was real; her tragedy was that she never got to play it onscreen. From the moment she hit Hollywood in 1935, barely 22 and with a natural blond beauty, Farmer determined to play by her own rules. She would adorn no mogul's casting couch, coddle no gossip columnist. She deserted Hollywood after her first hit movie (Come and Get It, 1936) to join the Group Theater in New York City as the star of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. Life struck back at Frances with gaudy vengefulness. Odets and his group...
...word is "destroy." In its Hebrew translation, it will adorn calendars and newspapers and magazines throughout Israel beginning next fall, every day for an entire year--unless one prominent Israeli official...
That emotion is now being conjured up by the 52 buzzwords that adorn the back of the official Class of '82 T-Shirts. Almost without a doubt, the vast majority of class members recognize most of the "vintage ingredients" that supposedly went into the making of the 1982 Harvard Radcliffe graduate. And surely, not a few of this year's seniors will was sentimental at the thought of "Ec 10, Union food, Where's Boston Boston?" and other memory evokes. The simple truth, however, is that the formative experiences for most of us will have nothing to do with these...
...adorn the public album of his private life, he has chosen Galya, 8, his only greatgrandchild. The Brezhnevs' children are Galina, about 50, once married to a circus animal trainer and now the wife of Yuri Churbanov, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs; Yuri, 48, a Deputy Foreign Trade Minister; and Mikhail, 44, a journalist of whom little is known. There are three grandchildren: Yuri's sons Leonid, 25, and Andrei, 20, and Galina's daughter Victoria (Galya's mother). Brezhnev seems to have spent little time with them. In a candid moment, he once talked...
...challenge the speed of light with their agility, and Phyllis Hyman and Terri Klausner pour molten sensuousness into numbers like In a Sentimental Mood and Hit Me with a Hot Note and Watch Me Bounce. If Harlem had a Renaissance court, Willa Kim's color-splashed costumes would adorn...