Word: objecting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...intra-Mafia dispute was settled in Masselli's favor in a Bonanno-Genovese "sitdown." But Frascone continued to object, and Masselli ordered him killed, according to last week's indictments. The admitted killer was Mike Orlando, a former grade school teacher who had switched to an exciting and dangerous double vocation: he was Masselli's top bodyguard and an FBI informer. Now a protected federal witness in other cases, Orlando claims he shot Frascone on Sept. 22, 1978, after the victim was fingered for him in The Bronx by Joe ("Bugs") Bugliarelli, a local bookie. The getaway...
...produced its own string of successes: the first 3 manned voyages to and from the moon in 1969, 1971 and 1972; the unmanned landing on Mars in 1976; and Pioneer 10, the first man-made object to leave the solar system, in 1972. But by 1975, the American commitment to space travel had begun to flag. In the tortoise-and-hare space competition, the methodical Soviets crept doggedly ahead, depending on incremental improvements in tried-and-true technologies, rather than the explosive leaps that have characterized American scientific and engineering advances in space...
...masterpieces of their own style. The face of Matisse's Portrait of Madame Matisse, 1913, possibly one of the dozen greatest portraits of the 20th century, was based on a mediocre Fang mask from Gabon. Sometimes, though, a modernist work would take off from an African object of the first rank. Such was the case with Picasso's bronze of Marie-Therese Walter, 1931, whose erotically swollen blimp of a nose is based on an effigy he owned of the fertility goddess Nimba from the Baga. The sight of these two sculptures confronting each other is as much...
...MEETS GIRL. He falls madly in love, wasting time and money on his object of desire, Girl retreats. It's the same old story, told this time with more talent. In the venerable tradition of films like Endless Love, Volker Schlondorf's latest is a tale of obsession. But where Zeferelli's version was a superficial skimming of a very good novel. Schlondorf's adaptation renders Marcel Proust some justice...
Visibly, the Magnetic cloud where the pulsar is located is a 23rd magnitude object, and therefore much more favorable for study than the Vela pulsar the second found to be visible within our our own galaxy...