Word: arthur
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wealth, discretion is the better part of survival, which helps explain another Forbes passion: privacy. It's not only reflected in his refusal to release his tax returns; he was also appalled when USA Today confronted Arthur Ashe in 1992 and broke the story that Ashe had aids. Forbes has called the Census Bureau's detailed questionnaires an "outrage," asked for a law guaranteeing the privacy of medical records in our computer age and fought the idea of a national ID card that proponents say would curb illegal immigration. "The loss of privacy," Forbes argued, "outweighs any gains...
...better life. She was engaged to be married and had dreams of being a doctor. Every weekday she boarded the No. 6 bus in her predominantly black Buffalo, New York, neighborhood for the 50-minute ride to Cheektowaga, a white suburb, where she worked as a cashier at Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips in the glittering, white-marbled Walden Galleria Mall. Often during the day, charter buses would pull into the Galleria parking lot and disgorge shoppers from as far away as Canada. But the city bus wasn't allowed on mall property. Wiggins had to get out 300 yards...
...threatened boycott by the Urban League, the N.A.A.C.P. and the Buffalo Teachers Federation, the Galleria and two other local malls all quickly agreed to put city bus stops on their property. The No. 6 now has a convenient stop in front of Kaufmann's, just a few steps from Arthur Treacher's. But Cynthia Wiggins will never...
...movie musical. It saw no reason why song and dance shouldn't reflect the realities of everyday life--and at the same time illuminate our everynight dream life. On Broadway it was Rodgers and Hammerstein, abetted by Agnes de Mille, who led this movement. In Hollywood it was producer Arthur Freed's "unit" at MGM, staffed mainly by sophisticated refugees from the East that carried the torch--and found in Kelly the dancer and choreographer who could embody their convictions...
...signaled in the novel's opening pages. In the late spring of 1910, in Paterson, New Jersey, D.W. Griffith is directing a film titled The Call to Arms. Just at the moment the leading lady, Mary Pickford, faints from the unseasonable heat, a few blocks away Presbyterian minister Clarence Arthur Wilmot loses his belief in the Divinity: "the God of the Pentateuch was an absurd bully, barbarically thundering through a cosmos entirely misconceived. There is no such God, nor should there...