Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breaking ahead of the pack is bound to come under fire. That has been happening lately to Jimmy Carter, who has been getting an increasingly critical press. Carter last week discussed specific complaints against him in interviews with TIME Senior Editor Marshall Loeb and Washington Correspondent Stanley Cloud. Some of the charges, and Carter's replies...
...Garden of Eden. There innocence and order are restored, and readers "may know love as love and not as the law." The Great Restorer is the godlike genius detective. Christie's own genius resided in a mind of intimidating clarity. She never allowed emotion or philosophical doubt to cloud her devious conceptions or hinder the icy logic of their untanglings. Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, she was the daughter of a rich American and an English mother. Although gifted with a good singing voice, she abandoned a stage career because of her shyness. In 1914 she married...
...superclean force may have lulled the community into smugness about the police. Both Cincinnati's city hall and its two daily newspapers were tame watchdogs. Said one dismayed patrolman: "The top man has been indicted; it couldn't be much worse. There is a dark cloud hanging over all of us." So much so that when Acting Chief Myron Leistler took over, one of his first acts was to replace the entire 13-man vice squad...
...Hindenburg contains many beautiful, technically ingenious shots showing a model of the great airship sailing majestically through all sorts of weather and cloud conditions. It also contains many lovingly detailed re-creations of the craft's interior-the elegantly appointed public rooms, the bridge, the 804-ft.-long canvas hull where the volatile hydrogen that kept the thing afloat was stored...
...year or so before he died, saying, "Do you find yourself thinking about your father more and more?" and I said, "I do." It's as if an old man in a long white beard were waiting to fold you in his arms from some beautiful billowy cloud...