Word: buckley
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STEPPING DOWN. WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR., 78, after a round (and orotund) half-century as guiding intellect and controlling shareholder of the immensely influential conservative magazine, the National Review. Buckley used the publication as one of several mechanisms for the life support and eventual triumphant revival of an ailing political position, characterized in the first issue as standing "athwart history, yelling 'Stop!'" Citing concerns about his inevitable mortality, he passed control to a board that includes his son Christopher, the humorist...
...head into a character's head and go really simplistically and think, like, What's the character's favorite color?" she says of her attempts at technique. "But I don't see how that helps so much." She has also tried listening to loops of Jeff Buckley and Nirvana to get into the right frame of mind to play an alcoholic Vermont waitress, opposite Adrien Brody, in the recently completed independent film The Jacket. "Oooh! I tried a bit of Method for that as well," she says in elaborate self-mockery. "The character was meant...
...summer after their junior years, Alter and Whitaker lived together with other Crimson editors—Susan D. Chira ’80 and Robert E. Grady ’79—in a house in Washington D.C., described by Christopher Buckley in Esquire as the “Washington bureau of The Harvard Crimson...
...wrote the voting rights statute, which sort of created equal voting rights in the United States; he argued Buckley v. Valeo, which set the rules for campaign finance,” said Heymann...
...Buckley responds: I intended a little fun, in the context of teasing the pretensions of left-wing faculty. Archie Bunker-talk can come in handy. It is used as "yassir" might have been used, to suggest subordinate status...