Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first of her children, Davey Junior, a boy of 15 today. Davey's one winter jacket was stolen last week. Rose vows to get it back. Joey, the second-oldest child, was produced by Frankie, with whom Rose lived for a year. The four other children belong to Vincent, with whom, until recently, Rose has been in an on-and-off custody war. Rose won the first * battle after Vincent had taken Sabrina and was sent to jail in handcuffs. "I hated to see him that way. I still had feeling...
Advertising has always had second-class status among the forms of discourse covered by the First Amendment's freedom-of-speech guarantees. The Supreme Court, notes Columbia Law Professor Vincent Blasi, "has clearly said that commercial advertising is not protected to the same degree as political debate or artistic expression." Indeed, the court upheld without comment the 1971 ban on broadcast cigarette ads. Since then, however, the Justices have been sheltering commercial speech more aggressively. In 1980 the court struck down a New York rule that sought to conserve energy by banning utility ads promoting electricity use. Before the Government...
...must get your eyes accustomed first and gradually to the different light," Vincent Van Gogh told his brother Theo in 1889. The different light that shines from a Van Gogh painting has been astonishing the world ever since. It does so once more in Bernard Zurcher's sensitive picture biography, Vincent Van Gogh: Art, Life, and Letters (Rizzoli; 325 pages; $60). In the ten years before his suicide, Van Gogh turned out more than 2,000 drawings and paintings, progressing from somber browns and greens to the bright hues of his last months. Nearly a century later, they still radiate...
...sixth of eight children in the Cojuangco family, a wealthy, politically prominent clan based in Tarlac, a province 65 miles northwest of Manila. After attending schools in Manila and the U.S., she earned degrees in French and mathematics from New York City's Mount St. Vincent College, returned to Manila and enrolled in law school. But in 1956 she abandoned the academic life to marry Ninoy Aquino, the mayor of Concepcion who, at age 22, was the Philippines' youngest mayor...
...prolific composer and pianist Vincent Persichetti will celebrate his 70th birthday this week with three days of talks and performances hosted by Harvard and three other area colleges...