Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sylvia A. Davis, WGBH promotion manager, said Friday the series is designed to express the "perceptions of the people" because moderate voices "don't usually make news...
Dream Ticket. Still another approach was on view in Washington's Mayflower hotel last week. Some 500 conservatives gathered to express their discontent with Ford's budget deficit, as well as other aspects of his policy that seemed to separate him from the true faith. "I personally believe that in 1976 we need a new political party," said M. Stanton Evans, chairman of the American Conservative Union. "The essential thrust of this Administration is not a conservative thrust." He was cheered by an audience wearing buttons proclaiming, REAGAN-THE SPIRIT OF '76 or THE DREAM TICKET: REAGAN...
...President frequently takes off his coat and works in shirtsleeves. His pipe is handy and in constant use. White House Physician William Lukash believes such little things reduce tedium and tension. Ford likes movies at night but sometimes flakes out. He fell asleep during a screening of The Sugarland Express but stayed the distance for Chinatown. There is an effort to introduce soothing potions of humor in the daily rituals. When Hollywood's gorgeous Candice Bergen was in the Oval Office taking pictures, a serious avocation of hers, alongside David Hume Kennerly, Ford's cameraman, the President went...
...stops, city employees-among them transit workers, policemen and firemen-have been sidling up to offer encouragement to the maverick Democrat. "Lotsa luck, Alderman. We're with you," are words often heard. That people who owe their jobs to Daley's political machine would even cautiously express such support for an opponent is a token of what has happened to Singer's campaign. The impossible dream of an energetic upstart with a lot of nerve has turned into the most serious challenge to Daley's rule since his election as mayor...
...cancer 39 years later, she wrote a novel, several screenplays, and these stories. In spite of all that's happened since then, all the events, discoveries and changes that have sent social historians scurrying for their notebooks and anyone with any sense running for cover, Slesinger's women express all the sorts and conditions of lives that women lead today. The stories aren't timeless, for social conditions are drastically changing and, hopefully, some of the emptiness Slesinger's characters endure will soon no longer exist. For now, however, it does--in every woman's life. Slesinger's writing brings...