Word: clement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First Ladies are hung. Though the Carters left Washington in 1980, Rosalynn was too busy to pose for Artist George Augusta until September of last year. But the delay has not hurt. "She is still young, and she left before showing the effects of office," observes White House Curator Clement Conger. To make room for the painting on the left side of the door to the Diplomatic Reception Room, the traditional position for the most recent First Ladies, Conger moved the painting of Pat Nixon to the east lobby. He tactfully insists that Mrs. Nixon's new position...
Screenwriter Alan Bennett has described A Private Function as "the fulfillment of his long-held desire to write about a chiropodist and (Director Malcolm) Mowbray's wish to direct a film about a pig." In fact, they have larger issues to lance. Although the film is set during Clement Attlee's Labor reign, it applies just as ferociously to Margaret Thatcher's pinchpenny Britain. With its double-edged title and its tone of bitter whimsy, A Private Function asks to be taken as a hymn to the meanness of the human spirit, in ) which the one decent soul...
...heavily subsidized farmers of the Midwest, where prices on such crops as wheat, corn and soybeans have been particularly depressed, seem to be suffering the most. The rural South has also been hard hit. California, with its wide diversity of crops (more than 200 in all) and clement weather, is faring better, but even there growers are worried. Because the large Eastern markets are close, mid-Atlantic farmers have avoided the export crunch that has badly hurt the heartland...
Ballerina Merrill Ashley has considerably more than a character to offer in her painstaking book. Today she is one of the glories of the New York City Ballet, a sunny allegro virtuoso. In his introduction, British Critic Clement Crisp likens her style to bravura pianism or flawless coloratura. As Ashley documents it, however, her career was not a prestissimo ascent. It took a decade of intense, disciplined practice to perfect her astounding technique and years onstage to learn how to present herself effectively. In the early pages, the author-dancer shows just how lost a youngster can be, even...
...Arthur Scargill, the combative president of the National Union of Mineworkers, nursing a head injury. "All I know," said Scargill, "is that these bastards rushed in and this guy hit the back of my head with a riot shield." Not so, countered South Yorkshire Assistant Chief Constable Tony Clement, who said that Scargill had fallen down a grassy slope and "hit his head" on a wooden beam...