Word: candidate
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...Robin is candid about what she calls the "void" in her life. She lost her job last year as an administrator in Century 21's lobbying office. "I'm very content, but there's a small, medium area I would like to fill," she says. Like many children of divorce, she loves the idea of family and hopes for the opportunity to have a child. She jokes that the Doles' dog Leader is "my stepbrother." On the first Mother's Day after her father remarried, she took flowers to Elizabeth Dole, who, she says, cried because she didn't think...
Nixon's unvarnished judgments and wily angling are back on display in a new book, Nixon Off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics, by Monica Crowley, a young aide who was close to him in the last four years of his life. The relationship began when, as a junior at Colgate, she wrote him a long letter expounding her Reagan-influenced views on politics and foreign policy. To her surprise, Nixon invited her to his office in New Jersey; upon graduation in 1990 the 21-year-old novice entered the 77-year-old ex-President's shrinking...
...book offers candid assessments of the show's less stellar moments as well. Koppel, we learn, never liked the idea of doing a show on comedian John Belushi's death--especially when the only show-biz "friend" of his the show managed to book was Milton Berle. Koppel's choice for the all-time worst Nightline is a 1985 interview with Le Duc Tho, in which the former North Vietnamese negotiator rattled on interminably (as fellow guest Henry Kissinger fumed) because his interpreter refused to convey Koppel's desperate efforts to stop him. A rare guest who Koppel says...
...finest manipulators of paint who has ever lived. Perhaps manipulator is the wrong word--it suggests trickery, whereas in Cezanne the relation between the paint surface and the imagined surface of the object (a rock, the side of a house, an apple) is astonishingly direct and candid. This doesn't come across in reproduction. It rises from the paint itself, that discreet paste in which every trace left by the brush seems to help create the impression of solidity, so that you feel you could pick the apple--which is both a rosy sphere of light and a ball...
Sadly, instead of challenging undergraduates with candid accounts of America, Harvard treats its students to more sophisticated variants of the pleasing fables they learned in high school and absorb from popular culture and the media. When they graduate, these students are unprepared to promote serious change or defy the status quo because they are not even aware of serious American dilemmas. Thus, each year, Harvard produces a bumper crop of graduates ready to climb the ranks on Wall Street or in Washington, but blind to the glaring gaps between American ideals and American reality. These graduates are committed to preserving...