Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite such pressures building around her, Mrs. Gandhi was cool and composed when she spoke with New Delhi Bureau Chief Lawrence Malkin and Stringer K.K. Sharma last week in the first interview she has granted to a foreign publication since her dramatic defeat six months ago. But she refused to answer any questions about specific cases before the courts and government commissions of inquiry on the ground that she might be held in contempt of court. Excerpts from the hour-long interview...
...Garden. The garden has three pools, each with a different speed-sound characteristic-"quiet, fizz and rush." The "quiet" pool is surrounded by a high wall with a continuous gutter that spills softly along its top, keeping the walls continuously dark and wet, adding to a public sensation of cool quiet and private peace. The "fizz" pool shoots up some 25 spray jets, producing a continual mist -"like ground fog settling among trees or over a swamp." The "rush" is a deep vortex of cascading water, studded with descending steps on which children and adults can climb, play or simply...
What then can be done to cool down housing inflation? Nothing spectacular, as long as Americans remain so enamored of the single-family house. The supply of land within reasonable, or even unreasonable, commuting distance of metropolitan centers cannot readily be increased. Still, some steps could be taken to alleviate, if not end, the trouble...
...known as a hypochondriac who would run off about once a week for an EKG at Roosevelt Hospital. "He just doesn't have the capacity to relax," says a former CBS colleague. Just being around him "can make you break out in little beads of perspiration," adds the otherwise cool ABC vice president Ed Vane...
Through his "moderate and dependable" narrator, Theroux produces a complex batik of exotic impressions and cool, clear perceptions. If his book is an appropriate souvenir rather than an imposing artifact, it is perhaps because the author no longer shares those beliefs and urgencies that once dramatized the expatriate novel. Theroux would probably agree with a character in John le Carre's forthcoming thriller The Honourable Schoolboy-a literary agent who observes that "nobody's brought off the Eastern novel recently, my view. Greene managed it, if you can take Greene, which I can't - too much popery...