Word: eclat
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...shoulder La Trump chose to cry on when she wanted to tell the whole world what she thought of the man who had left her. They stood side by side, equals and friends and newsmakers, the aspirant to a jumbo settlement and the journalist turned dispenser of social eclat. While ordinary footsore reporters waited outside a restaurant for crumbs of comment, Mizz Liz sailed in to console Ivana in the guise of boon companion, swapped expressions of abiding misery, then hurried out to whip intimate confidences into a souffle of salaciousness and scandal. Not that Ivana felt betrayed -- the whole...
...title role, Richard Thomas makes the transformation from naive youth to tortured victim to avenging superhero with startling eclat. Roscoe Lee Browne, Patti LuPone, Michael O'Keefe and Zakes Mokae all have riveting individual moments, yet seem completely in step with Sellars' overall vision. In one swoop, Sellars has brought a fresh burst of energy to America's long- running quest for a true national theater. And that is what being a wunderkind is all about...
...really have to admire Interior Secretary James G. Watt. During the one long year of his incumbency, Secretary Watt has demonstrated that the Department of the Interior need not be the subdued and quiet corner of the government it had been for so long. Watt has shown with true eclat that his department can generate a swirling storm of controversy every bit as well as the big boys at State and Defense. In fact, he has succeeded in making his policies, his picture and his off-color remarks a regular feature of the daily papers. By contrast, the most exposure...
...White House, Mrs. Carter started out with some eclat, setting forth in June 1977 on a 13-day, seven-nation tour of Latin America. There was some criticism of a presidential wife's playing diplomat, but she demonstrated considerable knowledge of the area and concern for its problems. "My talks saved Jimmy a lot of time," she told Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary last week, "because he can pick up where I left off." There were other criticisms, though, of such foibles as her creation of a special seal for her trip. Says one longtime acquaintance: "Rosalynn revels...
...efforts being made by the members of both the Ford and Carter families to get their man home first on election day. To gain a few local headlines that might help Nephew Jimmy along the way, Aunt Sissy sat down some 800 miles from home and-with great eclat-milked her first...