Word: candidated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They got 'em. Voting to cut off funds were 34 Democrats and 18 Republicans, despite last-minute telephone appeals from the White House. Voting with the Administration were 21 Republicans and 20 Democrats. One candid White House aide said: "It was a bad creaming, frankly...
...Mitchell was suffering from a cold, we talked for 41 hours." Another recorder was on hand two days later when Fischer, Correspondent Bonnie Angelo, Researcher Amanda Macintosh and Writer Douglas Auchincloss met Republican Martha Mitchell and Democrat Barbara Howar for a discussion on women and power in Washington. Characteristically candid, Martha fired off some observations about TIME'S cover team. Researcher Macintosh, who lives in Manhattan, was obviously "too sweet to come from New York." As for leonine Writer Auchincloss, Martha thought he could well pass for "an ambassador or a curator of a museum." No museum piece, Auchincloss...
...Discuss politics, if the other side wants to, but keep your cool. Most Communists at the negotiating level are relatively sophisticated politically and will respect a candid explanation of a Western country's position. Don't expect them to agree with you. The best you can hope for is a good-humored standoff...
...less and less surprised by what is said behind our backs. My temptation is to lash out against von Stade personally, but I feel that this must be resisted by all of us, in view of the very frustrating realization that his letter is no more than a candid, Agnew-like expression of the Harvard administration's view of women. Unfortunately, he is not an aberration in the Harvard hierarchy. Although I was amazed by the explicitness of his male chauvinist remarks, I realize that his statements must indeed be similar to those held by the rest of the administration...
...offer was persuasive. "The people were so bright and articulate," she says, "so unlike the kind of Hollywood film making I detested. Playing the part of a lesbian was the kind of rebellious gesture I enjoyed then." She is equally candid about her attitude toward later roles. She chose Sand Pebbles primarily because she wanted to go to the Orient, and confesses: "If I'm hard to take now, I must have been unbearable then. I had this tremendous disdain for my profession and this huge arrogance." She airily admits that she agreed to a role in that...