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Compare this with the sensitively understated Gilman as prim Miss Prism, Cecily's spinster governess. Severe in a herringbone suit, her frizzy yellow hair drawn back tightly in a bun, Gilman stands in her characteristic pose, hands clasped in front of her, and expresses dismay, skepticism and repressed lust with utter conviction...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Earnestness Without Style; 'I Speak, Therefore I Am' | 11/4/1976 | See Source »

Wilkes expressed his dismay that Cambion, which had no labor problems before the strike began in April, has lost its "close, family-like relationship" with the workers, adding, "The issue now is vandalism and destruction" of property belonging to those few employees who have returned to work...

Author: By Henry Griggs, | Title: City Council Hears Cambion Conflict | 10/5/1976 | See Source »

TIME has learned that Nixon himself phoned Lady Bird Johnson to express his dismay at the candidate's gratuitous slap at her late husband, an action reminiscent of less serious barbs Carter has hurled in the past at Humphrey, George Wallace and Edward Kennedy. Carter quickly called Mrs. Johnson to emphasize that he admired her husband and had spoken favorably of him elsewhere in the interview, but did not apologize, according to intimates of L.B.J.'s widow. Lady Bird described herself through an aide as "hurt and perplexed." The timing could hardly have been worse. Rosalynn Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: TRYING TO BE ONE OF THE BOYS | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...they would never make, they still seemed an implausible pair. Ronald Reagan was surrounded by his gleaming staff of Californians, and so the anguish of the moment in which he finally lost the nomination was somewhat obscured. But Richard Schweiker was alone; without friends and sycophants, he showed his dismay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALSO-RANS: The End of the Ride | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, 84, the last surviving founder of the nonaligned group, soon began to feel dismay at the course the conference was taking. Could they not, he asked the delegates, avoid ideological rhetoric and argue out bilateral disagreements at "another place and at some other time?" Evidently not. The summit meeting made it abundantly clear that many of the supposedly nonaligned are anything but neutral. Indeed, the conference served as a forum for a wide range of attacks against alleged Western "imperialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Sri Lanka Summit: Noisy Neutrality | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

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