Word: candidate
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Richard Grossman's diaries were hardly the hottest memoirs ever to hit the British press-no sex and scant scandal. But the former Minister of Housing and Secretary of State for Social Services, who died last year, did set down a candid account of life in Prime Minister Harold Wilson's first Labor Cabinet, between...
There's a new exhibit opening Sunday, at the Decordova Museum, which is a beautiful place out in Lincoln. The new show is called "Candid Painting" and there'll be a reception for it on Sunday afternoon, with sherry served from...
...Nixon has been working as much as eight hours a day. On NBC's Today show last week, Julie Nixon Eisenhower said Nixon has been working on the Watergate chapters of the book in recent weeks, and she declared that "he's going to write a very candid book." Would we, asked Hostess Barbara Walters, learn anything that we hadn't known before? Said Julie: "I'm sure you will...
Woiwode's polished images evoke whole landscapes and interiors. But on occasion they leave his characters as rigid as snapshots. Like the subjects of most candid portraits, the Neumillers sometimes appear querulous and unfocused, refugees wrenched by the camera from the context of their lives. The stop-and-start chapters abort their growth and development; some family members are simply dropped or disappear inexplicably for hundreds of pages. Though they struggle with life's standard challenges and disappointments, the stolid Neumillers are rarely compelling enough to carry the massive burden of their saga...
...Congress, who now make $42,500; eleven Cabinet officers, who make $60,000; 14,600 top-level career officials whose salaries have been limited to $36,000; and Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, who makes $62,500. "It may be a little inflationary," conceded House Speaker Carl Albert with candid resignation, "but so is everything...