Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each visit." He was affected by all-Egyptian, Sumerian. Etruscan, archaic Greek, Norman, Romanesque, and especially by the art of ancient Mexico. One of his first reclining women (1929) is an unabashed descendant of the ancient Mayan Chac-Mool, which Moore saw only as an illustration in a German magazine at the British Museum...
...boys' clothing are being instituted by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Union invoked contract clause that prohibits makers from handling apparel not made within union jurisdiction, will force three large New York-based chains-Ripley, Howard, Crawford (totaling 177 stores)-to halt imports of West German woolen loden coats...
...drop to $1,810 for a two-door that will be introduced early next year. Among the optional gear: automatic transmission ($135), gasoline heater (under $70). Counting taxes, transport and extras, a Corvair four-door will deliver in Manhattan for about $2,400, about the same as British and German imports in the Corvair's size and horsepower range...
...that in half a century he figures he has found close to $1 billion for borrowers. And last week Money Finder Clark was dickering on the biggest deal of his career: arranging the financing for two 90,000-ton. super-economy transatlantic ocean liners. If the German government will give a guarantee for 70% of the costs of the ships, a plan that German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard intends to discuss in New York this month with Promoter H. B. Cantor and other principals, Clark figures that he can raise $112 million out of the estimated $160 million cost...
...Lilli Palmer perches like a trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your mind there's a conflict," but everything is resolved when 1) Lilli...