Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, the time-honored image of the reporter-sketched in The Front Page as a low-paid but high-spirited regular fellow drinking beer with the police as the city edition is put to bed-has given way to a persona shaped by television: the anchorman or anchorwoman, cool, comely, and paid far more than the President...
...stop or go away, I was so busy crying. But I just figured they wanted a picture of me breaking down. They did put that picture in the paper. That was the only thing that made me a little put out. I was able to keep my cool up until then...
...like to direct my subjects and tell them exactly what to do," says Antony Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdon, in his introduction to Sittings 1979-1983 (Harper & Row; 144 pages; $20). That would account for the cool air of calculated informality that distinguishes these photographs, mostly of figures in the arts and public life of Britain. But Snowdon adds: "Often when people are told exactly what to do they become more themselves than they know." And that would explain the glint of pawky self-dramatization in many of the poses: Prince Charles sporting his riding silks with 18th century...
...Soviet actions as typical of Soviet crisis-making politics, saying that they resemble the way in which Krushchev fueled the Berlin crisis in the '60s. As Zbigniew Brezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, reportedly said last week, the hard-liners have counseled the Administration to "stay cool and on course...
...what does that mean? That students don't want the council to sponsor any band at all? That they want a council-sponsored concert, but not one they have to pay for? That they think a world-famous band would be great, but that the Dead are not as cool as the Rolling Stones or Elvis Costello? Whether the council will try and get another band if the referendum fails, and whether they will allow student input in that decision, are probably important considerations for many. Because students don't know how the council will react, they don't know...