Word: dollop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jane" and "Attila the Nun," a reference to the six months she once spent in a Berkeley, Calif., convent. As those sour nicknames show, the rise of Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, 46, chairman of NBC, has produced a predictable mix of envy, admiration, fear and resentment, laced with a dollop of old-fashioned male chauvinism...
...Carter" that shows up on the President's schedule between Prime Ministers and Senators on Wednesday or Thurs day at 12:30 is a unique institution of the modern presidency. Jimmy drinks buttermilk. Rosalynn has coffee. They nibble at salads and sin wildly when they plunge into a dollop of flan with ice cream. They ponder things like advice about Son Jack's grain-elevator business and the guest lists for approaching state dinners; then Rosalynn inevitably asks for the latest information on SALT or the Middle East. At one lunch, Rosalynn got the surprise of her life...
...Knight and The Faerie Queene. The result is a remarkable confection: a subliminal history of the movies, wrapped in a riveting tale of suspense and adventure, ornamented with some of the most ingenious special effects ever contrived for film. It has no message, no sex and only the merest dollop of blood shed here and there. It's aimed at kids-the kid in everybody...
...President Ford's idea of a taste treat a dollop of horseradish sandwiched between two thick slabs of Bermuda onion? Was a certain Southern Congressman pinched for making an illegal proposition to a plainclothes Washington policewoman? Did Ethel Kennedy playfully run her white convertible over the curb in front of the Senate Office Building and nearly cancel Pedestrian Roger Mudd...
...insistence on always being the life of the party. Hills's "Type X Moral Maturity System" isn't so much a way to be good as a way to be good and entertaining. The answer is something like, "to thine own self be true" with firm principles and a dollop of theatricality tossed in for good measure. "Vice can be very interesting. But it is a vice to be dull. Similarly, while it may or may not be interesting to be virtuous, it is indubitably virtuous to be interesting. That's why Virtue isn't dull. That...