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One trouble is that Venezuelan men often place machismo, the Latin American he-man obsession, above matrimony. Man's role, they believe, is to beget children, not support them. And their women are none too insistent; many actually believe that marriage "ruins a man." As a result, some 176...
Clearly this story has its gruesome elements, and Thomas Babe has appropriated them in order, it appears, to account for the behavior of Walter and Griselda. "On his lust present was al his thoght," Chaucer writes of the Lord (meaning his immediate pleasure or wish), and speaks of his "merveillous...
The investigation is a direct challenge to powerful MTA General Manager Thomas J. McLernon. "He brought it on by his complete disregard for the public," McKenna stated. "McLernon's one obsession is to cut the MTA deficit and he does not care how he does it," the Senator continued.
audience was on his feet, clapping and cheering, not for the speech but out of sheer gratitude for the building. Architectural magazines hailed McGregor Center as "delightful" and "refreshing," and the A.I.A. gave Yamasaki another of its First Honor awards. A Bit Slaphappy. As Yamasaki's body of work...
Worst of all is the man down the road, who refused to let his child play with Stern's ("No playing here for kikes"), and who gave Stern's wife a push that sent her sprawling and may (or may not) have allowed him a look beneath her...