Word: earl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to direct my subjects and tell them exactly what to do," says Antony Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdon, in his introduction to Sittings 1979-1983 (Harper & Row; 144 pages; $20). That would account for the cool air of calculated informality that distinguishes these photographs, mostly of figures in the arts and public life of Britain. But Snowdon adds: "Often when people are told exactly what to do they become more themselves than they know." And that would explain the glint of pawky self-dramatization in many of the poses: Prince Charles sporting his riding silks with 18th century...
...lack of a fourth defenseman is only a small indication of Dooley's fragile numbers game. If Earl Weaver loved deep depth, John Dooley would love to have a single reserve. There are only 15 players on the team. Dooley literally does not have a single skater to sit on the bench in case of injury...
...President, Lyndon B. Johnson, appointed a seven-man commission headed by then Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren to investigate and research all the circumstances surrounding the assassination. The Commission, laboring for 10 months, produced 26 volumes of transcripts and exhibits, and its 726-page final report drew these basic conclusions...
...Earl Carter, owner of a local farm-supply store, and set about raising four children...
Houston was the home town of the Urban Cowboy, a ghost town in that sense now. The country-and-western boom has gone the way of the Oilers, who in the words of Fullback Earl Campbell (originally of Songwriter Merle Haggard) have gone the way of "a snowball rolling downhill headed for hell." Halfway through the season last week, the Oilers had lost them...