Word: awfulness
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...Aw, Mom, I feel awful! Can I stay home from school?" In the old days, mothers could indulge plaints of colds and other minor ills with plenty of chicken soup and tlc. But in an era of two-income families, few parents can afford to skip work every time Junior comes down with a real or imaginary malady. This dilemma has spawned a new type of day-care facility for children with mild illnesses. More than three dozen of these so-called sniffle centers have opened for business around the U.S., often bearing names right out of A.A. Milne, like...
...opening of his retro spective in San Francisco last month, Wayne Thiebaud gave an aw-shucksy wriggle of the shoulders and declared, "I'm just a sign painter gone uppity." One may, with respect, demur. At 64, after decades of painting in the Bay Area, Thiebaud is one of the most gifted realist artists in America. At a time when so much new art leaves an iridescent slick of depletion on the eyeball, the group of 89 of his paintings and drawings, assembled by Curator Karen Tsujimoto at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is the real thing...
...White House, not Speakes himself, that put out the misleading report that no biopsy had been performed on the President's skin cancer. But, protested ^ Helen Thomas of U.P.I., "you were not candid." Speakes: "Do you want to say that I did not tell the truth?" Thomas: "Aw, come on, get off of that!" Speakes: "No, you come on!" Thomas: "You pulled an iron curtain down on the truth." Speakes: "Exactly right...
...gold cuff links, quiet fishing trips to showy vacations in St.-Tropez. Last week in a lakeside resort in Salzburg, Austria, where he was attending a meeting of his European board of advisers, Smith wore the trademark pinstripe suit. Making no attempt at being suave, he cultivates a deceptive aw-shucks manner and punctuates conversation with his favorite expression: "Holy Toledo...
...pragmatists" and led by Budget Director David Stockman, has counseled Reagan to keep open all options, including a tax increase. The pragmatists fear that the strength of the economy may convince the President that the supply-siders are right. Says one Administration official: "The President is going to be aw fully tempted to believe this fairy tale about the deficit going away...