Word: beholds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daily Life in the Forbidden City by Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing and Lu Yanzhen (Viking; $75). As the Son of Heaven moved through his palaces, the Hall of Luminous Benevolence, the Gate of Divine Prowess, there was everywhere beauty to behold. The Palace Museum in Beijing has assembled a sumptuous record of this quotidian splendor...
Advertisers favor O'Neill for his familiar face and grandfatherly voice. The pay is handsome: for a day's work he gets $100,000, equivalent to his annual salary as Speaker. Says he: "I always said I'd never be a lobbyist, and lo and behold, a new career fell upon me." Next on his agenda: ads for the Trump Shuttle...
...remain a solo financial player to ensure her control of the enterprise. Kevin Buckley, the first editor during the bruising start-up, nonetheless credits Lear "as the first to see that most magazines neglected or talked down to millions of Americans. The success was inevitable and a pleasure to behold from a distance." The rapid growth of Lear's magazine has encouraged competitors. This month a new entry, Mirabella, aimed at 30-to-50-year-old women, may nibble at the younger readers in Lear's audience...
...Allen himself plays Sheldon, victim of a kind of transcendental Jewish-mother joke. It would spoil the fun to say how he transforms a stock figure, a yammering, smothering mom (Mae Questel, who is splendid), from a private torment into a public menace, but it is literally magical to behold...
...vision. His most ambitious campaign proposals bear Dukakis' characteristic stamp of liberalism on the cheap. He would mandate that employers provide health insurance and covertly pass along the costs to consumers in the form of higher prices. In a technical sense, Dukakis' college-loan proposal is a wonder to behold: graduates would repay the money in the form of a small surcharge on their lifetime earnings, with the Government largely playing the role of collection agent...