Roger CarasAge: 72 animal-rights activist who served as president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals from 1991 to 1999. He studied film in college and worked as…
Roger StevensBroadway producer Stevens helped create the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and establish the National Endowment for the Arts and served as its first chairman.…
Roger ShattuckAge: 82 writer, editor, and scholar whose works ranged from Marcel Proust and a study on the development of human intelligence. He won a National Book Award for his 1974…
Roger StrausAge: 87 publisher who headed Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, one of the most respected publishing houses in the industry. The company remained the last of the independents until…
a Spanish cosmetic, made of roses, trefoil, and lavender. Short for Angelica-water, because originally it was chiefly made of the plant Angelica. “Angel-water was the worst scent about her…
The conscious water saw its God, and blushed (Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit). Crashaw's epigram on the miracle of Cana in Galilee. “The modest water” would be a closer rendering…
The eddy-water closing in with the ship's stern, as she passes through the water. It shifts its place, but is like taking money from one pocket and putting it into another. Source:…
I will go through fire and water to serve you. The reference is the ordeals of fire and water which might be transferred to substitutes. Paul seems to refer to substitutional death in Rom…
(I am for). I am a Jack of all trades, can turn my hand to anything, a good all-round man. Like a fish which can live in salt or fresh water. “I am for all waters.” Shakespeare: Twelfth…
Roger VadimAge: 72 French director whose first film, And God Created Woman (1956), launched the career of then-wife Brigitte Bardot. One of France's pioneering New Wave directors, Vadim…
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