Word: hussar
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...critics think of Chris as a paradigm of catholic sensibilities to whom no work of merit, from this century or any other, is unfamiliar. ("Scrupulous. Sympathetic. Measured," says Robert Hughes, whom Porterfield persuaded to come to TIME in 1970 over lunch at a London bistro called the Gay Hussar.) And our entire staff recognizes in Porterfield a journalist who embodies the sort of grace, civility and honesty that the rest of us can merely strive for. Yet he would swallow his tie before endorsing such a view...
...Faithful Hussar...
Barry Clifford's new goal is to salvage H.M.S. Hussar, a British pay ship that sank in 80 ft. of water in the East River off Manhattan in 1780 laden with a cargo of gold that some experts estimate to be worth $500 million. Clifford has been granted an initial exploration permit for the Hussar by New York State, and expects to begin probing the river's treacherous five-knot currents and polluted water this week...
...attempt to show his good faith, he expressed his readiness to end martial law as soon as the situation in Poland "develops successfully." This, he said, could occur at a "not distant date," though he would not be more precise. Jaruzelski gave the Pope two gifts: a breastplate of hussar's armor, from the battle in which Polish troops helped end the Turkish siege of Vienna exactly 300 years ago, and a painting of the Tatra Mountains, in which John Paul enjoyed hiking when he was Archbishop of Cracow...
...screenwriter, Gerald Vaughan-Hughes, hold closely to a short story by Joseph Conrad called The Duel. Conrad was fascinated by obsession, by the kind of craziness carried so far beyond the reasonable delusions of ordinary men that it acquires a kind of grandeur. In The Duellists a young hussar lieutenant named D'Hubert (Keith Carradine), an unexceptional man, collides with another lieutenant named Feraud (Harvey Keitel). Feraud is a strutting, bloody-minded fool, and he challenges D'Hubert to a duel. Though D'Hubert knows that the matter is silly, honor forces him to fight. Feraud...