Word: harold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Residents in the nation's third-largest city vote today to fill the vacancy left by former Mayor Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, who died in November 1987. The Illinois Supreme Court last year ordered the special election to fill the last two years of his term...
...Britain, Rushdie had no shortage of defenders. A group of writers led by playwright Harold Pinter presented a petition in Rushdie's behalf at No. 10 Downing Street. Author Anthony Burgess, writing in the newspaper the Independent, stated the Western position precisely: "What a secular society thinks of the Prophet Muhammad is its own affair, and reason, apart from law, does not permit aggressive interference of the kind that has brought shame and death to Islamabad," where the rioting took several lives. "If Muslims want to attack the Christian or humanistic vision of Islam contained in our literature," Burgess observed...
...Eliot Norton Lecturer for the year, Cage delivers six lectures. He joins the ranks of T.S. Eliot '10 and Leonard Bernstein. Last year's lecturer was Yale literary critic Harold Bloom...
Steinberg's lawyers plan to appeal the verdict, arguing that Acting State Supreme Court Judge Harold Rothwax improperly instructed the jurors on the meaning of intent. They also contend that he should not have permitted the jurors to view a videotape made shortly after Nussbaum's arrest showing her covered with scars, bruises and ulcerations...
...Warhol's most authoritative creation: his fame -- the meticulous construction of a persona vivid in its coy blandness, pervasive and teasing in its appeal to the media, and deathlessly inorganic. Warhol looked like the last dandy, right from the start of his public career. As the late critic Harold Rosenberg put it, he was "the figure of the artist as nobody, though a nobody with a resounding signature." This subverted the romantic stereotype of the artist -- hot, involved, grappling with fate and transcendence -- that American popular culture, and hence most American collectors, had boiled down from Van Gogh and Pollock...