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Soon erstwhile Photo-Secessionists were chafing under the harness, but Strand immediately took to the more conservative elements, and between 1911 and 1913 he produced appropriately languid views of shimmering water; decorative sheep; and unfocused, mildly erotic light effects.
The erstwhile pirate thus became a policeman during the last years of his life.
A potentially significant conflict is opening up between Michael Isikoff, the Newsweek reporter who's been a driving force in the Flytrap scandal, and Julie Steele, the erstwhile friend of Kathleen Willey who says Willey told her to lie to Isikoff.
The section Adaptations of Arabic Script was prepared by Alan S. Kaye (California State University, Fullerton), erstwhile contributor to VERBATIM; Bernard Comrie (Cambridge University) and our friend Eric P. Hamp (University of Chicago) contributed the subsection on Welsh, in Part X.
HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK : That would be Time magazine's account of the testimony of Julie Steele, erstwhile friend of Kathleen Willey.