Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unaffected Cool...
...panelists-like many American voters-felt the campaign lacked excitement and inspiration. At best they were watching it with the cool appraisal of a professional handicapper sizing up a match race. Almost 9 out of 10 were following the campaign closely but without any feelings of fervor or commitment. Many grumbled about the lack of real differences between the two combatants. Said Salesman Randy Lipton, a Ford man from Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: "Carter is saying nothing, and Ford is doing nothing...
...professor of journalism at Columbia University and the author of several nonfiction books, is adept at the mechanics of the novel. His dialogue sounds spoken, the scenes pass by smoothly and at just the right clip. Occasionally the prose is too lavish: "The sofas and chairs lie in cool pools of watery shadow like velvet leviathans anesthetized." But such empurplings fade as the book proceeds on its quiet but genuinely moving path. In the end, The End of the Party seems a well-tended, well-annotated photo album, an example of loving nostalgia tempered by wisdom...
...Boston ever had a quarterback quite like the Kansan. Against the Steelers, he refused to be intimidated by Dwight White, 50 Ibs. heavier, who mocked him after a play lost yardage. A cool Grogan stuck a warning fist into White's back. "Aw, I wouldn't hit anyone," says Grogan. "They're bigger than I am. But I am a little faster, though." A little faster has made a big difference in Boston...
...fall by a woman (105 ft.) and is considered among the best of the 40 stunt women in Hollywood. Says Loren Janes, a Hollywood stunt coordinator for 23 years: "She has developed in six months to a point that usually requires two to three years. She is very calm, cool and collected under pressure." Crashing through barriers in more ways than...