Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muskie's dilemma is painfully difficult. He has come across as a fuzzy Establishment kind of politician in a year when voters seem in revolt, and has been unable to put his brand on any issue that can attract that fed-up, turned-off voter. If he cannot beat such lesser-known Democrats, how can he be seen as the man to beat Nixon? "He's got to find the ways to tap the anger and frustration that people have about big government and big business," says Senator Tunney, one of his now-disillusioned supporters. "I know Muskie...
...artists nuts and fakes," he said of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum-and was duly ignored by it. For most of his working life, critics dismissed him as a pedantic illustrator. Born in 1898, Escher was 52 before his tightly executed woodcuts, lithographs and engravings began to attract even a crumb of attention. A retiring, ironic man with the bony nose and goat beard of an El Greco prelate, Escher took no part in art debates, lived quietly in a village outside Amsterdam, and made few claims for his work. It was improvisation, he insisted: his prints contained nothing that...
...table. Roulette Goddard-another protegee (Modern Times, 1936) and his third ex-wife-was somehow brought unscathed through the crowd to chat with him for a couple of minutes. A nearby window was a refracted pattern of outsiders with faces and noses pressed against the glass, waving to attract his attention. But for all the loud confusion, when tired, old Charlie Chaplin made his way out at last, shielded by policemen and supported by his wife and son-in-law, his face was alight with pleasure...
...club met last night at Mather House to set future plans for practice and competition, but hopes to attract the talents of forgotten undergraduate ping pong greats before beginning formal competition...
PALC organizers expect a large turnout at the protest. "We hope to attract people boycotting classes in support of the teaching fellows' strike." Cann said...