Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other trenchant observations employed in this account repose in a fine collection by Bruce Henstell called Los Angeles, an Illustrated History.) There is to this day a certain nuttiness to the place; it is as if the mentally unwrapped in every other state got together once a year, chose the wildest card among them and paid the chosen's expenses to Los Angeles. Look under churches in the Yellow Pages, and you will find 70 columns of listings, many of them having little or nothing to do with...
...President indirectly sounded part of the Administration line on Ferraro at a White House luncheon Friday for female Republican elected officials. Said he: "The Conservative Party of Great Britain chose Margaret Thatcher as their leader not because she was a woman but because she was the best person for the job. There was no tokenism or cynical 'symbolism' in what they did." Reagan-Bush Campaign Director Edward Rollins sarcastically termed Ferraro "a superb choice. She is bright, articulate, and she stands for everything Mondale stands for?increasing taxes, cutting defense spending...
Summer fun for a Supreme Court Justice does not necessarily mean hitting the beach for swimming, tanning and frisbee. With the high court now on vacation, Justice John Paul Stevens, 64, chose a more deliberative form of relaxation last week. Wearing a well-practiced quizzical expression and a lawyerly bow-tie, Stevens captained a team of politicians and judges at a Washington contract-bridge tournament against several British parliamentarians. Stevens, a life master, plays his cards not too differently from the way he decides cases-"a little on the conservative side but with dash," said one expert observer. The Americans...
...Wettstein, a professor of religion at Rollins College: "These people know who they are and are quite willing to look at the professor and say, 'Now, Sonny, you don't have this straight.' " In one communications class at the University of 1 Northern Colorado, the teacher chose the bombing of Pearl Harbor "as an example of the result of poor communications. She was challenged by one of her students, who turned out to be a retired Air Force general. Besides their experience and sense of history, elders provide another plus for professors. Observes George C. Higgins...
French Suite. When French President François Mitterrand visited San Francisco in March, he chose to stay in the $1,500-a-day presidential suite of the Hotel Meridien because it is owned by a French consortium. Walter Mondale had other reasons for picking the same digs as his headquarters during the Democratic Convention, starting with its location one block from Moscone Center. By contrast, the other two Democratic presidential candidates will be staying a traffic-clogged half-mile away on Union Square - Gary Hart at the venerable Westin St. Francis and Jesse Jackson at the high-rise Hyatt...