Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some reporters missed the excitement of the old mike-to-mike combat with Richard Nixon, or the crisp pace of Jimmy Carter's minilectures. But most agreed with NBC Correspondent Roger Mudd, who expressed relief that reporters would no longer spring "from the half crouch exploding into a full gainer with shout" to get the President's attention. At week's end Brady announced two other changes: Reagan will hold occasional informal sessions with journalists beginning this week, and, as an experiment, questioners at his next formal press conference will be chosen by lottery...
...Conservative Political Action Committee, the Committee for the Survival or a Free Congress, and a variety of single issue groups opposing abortion, gun control and the Equal Rights Amendment. After roughly fifteen years of mailings, Viguerie has honed his prose into a weapon. Political "free discussion" streamlines into a crisp, readable text: paragraphs are short, ideas simple, and arguments emotionally and financially evocative. Evidently, Viguerie now thinks folks are ready to lift the Right's rhetoric out of the mailbox and into the bookmart...
...Quentin Crisp, sartorially eccentric English author, on the distinction between fashion and style: "Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know...
...Adolfo, Bill Blass and Galanos, whom she admires especially for what she calls their "simple, classical lines." She has a penchant for red, but almost all her clothes are colorful. In Adolfo's view, she projects "a chic, affluent way of looking, extremely sophisticated." Blass calls her style "crisp and fresh." According to Gale Hayman, co-owner of Giorgio's, a shop on Rodeo Drive where Mrs. Reagan has bought some of her clothes, she will be "very proper, very dignified, like Pat Nixon. But she will go a few steps further, closer to Jackie Onassis...
...first eight minutes of the opening game, the Crimson looked up to the challenge. Crisp passing and some solid forechecking in the offensive zone, plus spirited defensive play, allowed the Crimson to stay even, if not dominate...