Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abruptly replaced by Jacob Stein and Plato Cacheris, two specialists in Washington cunning and its rules of discretion. It was probably no accident that when the two men were introduced to the press, with Lewinsky beaming confidently behind them, Stein was wearing a necktie in place of his trademark bow. Ginsburg favored bow ties too. The new guys want to signal a new approach. Stein is bookish and quiet, an intellectual who files intricately thought-out but simply expressed motions. Cacheris is a backslapper who gets along well with prosecutors. Don't expect them to operate as Lewinsky's Libido...
...stilts, mix in a free-flowing floor plan, make the walls independent of the structure, add horizontal strip windows and top it off with a roof garden. But this makes him sound like a technician, and he was anything but. Although he dressed like a bureaucrat, in dark suits, bow ties and round horn-rimmed glasses, he was really an artist (he was an accomplished painter and sculptor). What is most memorable about the austere, white-walled villas that he built after World War I in and around Paris is their cool beauty and their airy sense of space...
...Deco penthouses for swells with nothing better to do than dance the night away. Did audiences rebel at this fantasy vision? No, they wanted escape--escape into elegance. Nearly everyone opted for that patina. Gangsters and jazzmen went to their gigs in cool dark suits; gas-station attendants wore bow ties. To look natty was to buy into the Hollywood myth. Mr. DeMille might never come to Podunk, but Middle America was always ready for its close...
...French workers are firing a warning shot across the government's bow, showing how disruptive they can be," says TIME correspondent Bruce Crumley. While most of the other strikers are simply beating their chests, the pilots have caused serious damage by grounding most flights of the tournament's official carrier. While a compromise is reportedly within sight, the situation remains unpredictable. "Everyone wants a resolution before next week when the tournament begins," says Crumley, "but it's hard to predict the behavior of people who are capable of such cynicism -- after all, these pilots are among the best-paid...
...unusual for somebody in politics to have pursued those views," he says, "but I think that because she didn't attempt at any time to bow to popular pressure, the people respected her integrity...