Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resembled a dapper cross between Groucho Marx and Rudyard Kipling; the same dark, emphatic brows, bristle-broom mustache, prognathic jaw and mordant cast of eye behind steel-rimmed glasses. But when he described himself, there was no mistaking the original style of the most literate, widely traveled humorist of his time: "Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin and pauper-poor is S.J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled...
...Rhodes scholar before getting his law degree from the University of Oklahoma. He has a knack for country-style campaigning: while running for Governor, he flourished a broom, vowing to sweep the "Old Guard" out of state government. He also spurned campaign contributions from organizations. An early Carter backer, Boren, who is also a born-again Christian, has since become disillusioned with the President's energy policies; the Senator from the oil state would like to deregulate gasoline prices and is strongly opposed to the Administration's windfall profits tax proposal. But the single most important problem that the country...
...deport the wild goat population from the small island of San Clemente, located off the coast of Southern California, that it uses for target practice. The reason, according to the Navy, was that the goats were nibbling their way through the island's four endangered plants (the bushmallow, broom, larkspur and paintbrush...
Yazdi wasted no time in wielding a new broom at the Foreign Ministry; his first act was to accept the resignation of four deputy ministers appointed by his predecessor, Karim Sanjabi, who resigned two weeks ago. The White House is eager to learn whom Yazdi will name as a replacement for the Shah's longtime, high-living ambassador to Washington, Ardeshir Zahedi. In Zahedi's absence, the spokesman for the Iranian embassy has been Yazdi's articulate son-in-law, Shahriar Rouhani, 29, who temporarily put aside his doctoral studies in physics at Yale to serve...
...troupe as an aerialist-clown. He achieved lasting fame when he broke with the white-faced clown tradition to create the ragtag Willie, who delighted millions of circus fans with his soulful stares while nibbling on a cabbage, or misguided attempts to sweep up a moving spotlight with a broom...