c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 1 Joseph Berger, A Career Sketching the Famous as They Sweated in Court.
New York Times, Oct. 13, 2010 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/nyregion/13about.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=church%20gotti&st=cse
Note:
(a) vapid (adj; Latin vapidus flat-tasting): "lacking liveliness, tang,
briskness, or force"
(b) telescope (vt): "COMPRESS, CONDENSE"
(c) Mark David Chapman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_David_Chapman
(The Catcher in the Rye figured prominently in John Lennon's murder)
John Lennon (Oct. 9, 1940--Dec. 8, 1980) His fans just commemorated his 60th
birthday a few days ago.
(d) Westmoreland v. CBS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmoreland_v._CBS
(On Jan. 23, 1982 CBS aired a documentary Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam
Deception. Retired U.S. Army Chief of Staff General William Westmoreland
sued for defamation. Westmoreland settled and received no monetary
compensation.)
(e) Honoré Daumier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Daumier
(1808-1979; French painter)
(f) Queen Mary, University of London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mary,_University_of_London
(a constituent college of the University of London; Queen Mary's origins lie in the mergers, over the years, of four older colleges, the oldest being Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital, established in 1123)
(g) In the print but not online, caption to the first photo of photo gallery
stated, "At top, to the left of a smirking John J. Gotti at his 1992 trial
is Anthony Quinn, who at the time said he was thinking of making a movie
about Mr. Gotti and had been invited to attend the session by a Gotti friend
."
smirk (vi): "to smile in an affected or smug manner"
smug (adj): "highly self-satisfied"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
* A Silver-Screen Sequel? New York Times, Mar. 21, 1992.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/21/nyregion/a-silver-screen-sequel.html |
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