Word: candor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wifely" women on Japanese television. Until Tetsuko, women on the air were invariably hai hai girls, pretty poppets who decorated the chair next to the male host and giggled on cue. But her debut as a talk-show host eleven years ago changed all that. Her quick tongue, candor, spontaneity and irrepressible curiosity were revolutionary and made her a significant role model for ambitious women all across Japan. Says Eiichi Adachi, television critic of Tokyo's daily Hochi: "Tetsuko has had more impact on her audience than any other top personality." woman Today, at 49, unshow-business abashedly unmarried...
...roll" politically. His approval rating has risen from 44% to 55% since January, according to Presidential Pollster Richard Wirthlin. Simply by showing his concern, Reagan has proved once again his adroitness as a politician. "Whether the President does anything is not relevant," says one adviser in a fit of candor...
...office he never removes his jacket or loosens his tie. He seems austere, but he is not a scold and does not preach to anyone. When a member of his staff first applied for a job, he told Glenn directly that he was a homosexual. Impressed by his candor, Glenn considered the matter for a couple of days, then hired him. He resists all efforts to let himself be repackaged. Aides once suggested Glenn get a speech coach, and he curtly brushed off the idea. Annie Glenn happened to be there and shouted out, "No, no one is going...
...chunky, cigar-chomping Hinton has been in El Salvador for two years. His unusual blend of realism, toughness, charm and candor earned him wide respect among the Salvadorans, and he seemed to be carrying out Washington's policy with great skill. He irked the White House recently by publicly scolding the Salvadoran government on its lax prosecution of human rights abuses, but did so at Enders' urging...
...increasing riches. On one occasion, when he received an envelope that felt full of money, he artfully opened and emptied it without actually looking inside, "that I might say I saw no money in the paper if ever I should be questioned about it." It is that candor, conveying irresistibly the sense of life as it was, that finally begins to make Pepys rather likable after all. And so history has come to rely on his vivid descriptions of all he saw: the Restoration of the Crown after the Cromwellian revolution, the Great Fire of London, the return...