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...public relations, and married Charles Stuart. Charles has been part of the Nixon team since 1968; he moved into the White House with the President. He started as assistant to John Ehrlichman, is now an aide to Bob Haldeman. When Pat Nixon fired her first press secretary, Gerry Van der Heuvel (who, among other things, had wanted to work for Hubert Humphrey), there was Connie, with recommendations from two of Nixon's closest...
Tries Hard. On the other hand, the distaff White House press corps gives Connie credit for holding twice-weekly press briefings, something that Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird's press secretary, did only on big stories and Mrs. Van der Heuvel never did. She works twelve-hour days at her $30,000-a-year job, without the tranquilizers used by Mesdames Carpenter and Van der Heuvel. And unlike her West Wing counterpart, Ron Ziegler, Connie attempts to answer all questions, though she does not hesitate, with a theatrical roll of her eyes, to show her disapproval of certain queries. Because...
...birth in 1879 and his death from a wasting disease in a Swiss sanatorium 60 years later, he produced over 9,000 works. Perhaps one could no more put on a "definitive" Klee show than fix the shape of a swarm of bees. But the one at the Haus der Kunst in Munich has made a valiant attempt, mustering 537 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints to memorialize the 30th anniversary of his death...
...result is that German has become peppered with what might be called deutschlisch words and phrases. Many of the hybrid words come from the aeronautic or computer fields, but many more are general terms like die Eskalation, die Antibabypille, der Selfmademan and der Allroundman...
There is no "school" of Johnson, as there was of his own great mentor, Mies van der Rohe, with whom he worked on the design of New York's Seagram Building. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a young architect setting out to imitate Johnson. He is an architect of sensibility, not polemics, and his work has no discernible core of aesthetic theory. It is all taste, exemplary in its detailing and finesse of decision. Though he was trained in the strict, functionalist idiom of Mies and Gropius, Johnson believes such purism "is winding up its days." "Structural honesty...