Word: brows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editor and onetime owner of the Saturday Review (circ. 662,000), Norman Cousins was for 31 years the undisputed boss of his profitable, determinedly middle-brow magazine. Cousins, 56, agonized last summer (TIME, July 19) when the Review was sold by Norton Simon, Inc., to a pair of young publishing entrepreneurs, Nicolas Charney and John Veronis, who had made a success of Psychology Today. Cousins eventually decided that he could get along with the new owners; last week, though, they revealed plans to revamp the Review and use it as a springboard to something Cousins may have trouble recognizing...
Soon afterwards, Kramer was led upstairs to the main auditorium of the Spingold Theater (which looks as rich as it sounds). About thirty people there had been watching an assemblage of film clips hyped by Columbia as a "Kramer retrospective". Kramer was showing a little more sweat on his brow...
...Mopped Brow. After a rousing exchange of national anthems, Agnew drove to the town cemetery, where he placed wreaths of pink and white gladioli at the graves of eight relatives. Then to the convent of Saint Spirdion, founded by Agnew's great-aunt, Sister Makaria, where the Vice President chatted with two orphans and gave each a bracelet...
Then to the family house, where the welcoming crowd nearly overwhelmed him with its babbling affection. One bystander, seeing that Agnew was sweating heavily in the noonday sun, whipped out a large white handkerchief and mopped the vice-presidential brow. "He is the greatest Greek," cried another. In a doorway of the family house, a two-story whitewashed stone and stucco affair built 161 years ago, Agnew met his black-clad cousin Anastasia and Anastasia's 19-year-old son Demokratis, who presented him with a bouquet of red gladioli. Inside-while at the doors a crowd of people...
...candidates were Willie S. Brow Jr., California state assemblyman; Angela Davis, the radical scholar awaiting trial on murder charges; Ailees Hernandez, a former member of the U.S. Equal Opportunities Commission; the Rev. Andrew Young of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Augustinho Neta and Amilear Gabral, leaders of liberation movements in Angola and Portuguese Guinea, respectively...