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There were days around the White House when I figured that the Eisenhower grin was worth our entire nuclear arsenal in world affairs. Some careless observers have suggested that it was a perpetual condition. Not so. There was anger, and it lurked beneath a furrowed brow. He could glower, and then often he just shifted into neutral. When he did grin, with old Army comrades or his newfound political friends, you knew more often than not that good things were...
...liberal causes, set up a "1-877-TO-MOVE-ON" phone line to connect voters with their representatives. Geraldine Ferraro pitched in too: she worked the phones, calling Representatives Connie Morella of Maryland and Tillie Fowler of Florida for some girl talk. To the buttoned-up-right-to-her-brow Fowler, Ferraro made a down-and-dirty pitch: "Tillie...
...found that current publications on campus didn't really appeal to all students. We wanted something that was neither low-brow nor difficult to relate to," Weisbard said...
Like most African Americans, I have the legacy of slavery written all over my face. My brow, for example, resembles that of my father's father, who was born a slave in northern Florida. The sponsor's slogan for the powerful series Africans in America, which aired on PBS last week, rightly insisted that the story of slavery is not just African-American history but American history. But for blacks like me, it's also family history, a link to the oppressive past so intense and personal that it stares back whenever we look in a mirror...
...woman in disequilibrium, not as fiercely torn apart as she is in the Weeping Women of those years, but out of kilter all the same, with staring eyes, figure-eight nostrils flared as though in suppressed fright, and strange asymmetries of form around the nose and brow. Compared with it, Impressionism began to look somewhat easy and even insipid to the fast-learning Wynn, and he started to buy more modern work--Picassos especially. He also began to cast a covetous eye on American art, scooping up (among other things) a great and gritty De Kooning, Police Gazette, 1955, along...