Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Board of Rabbis, though there was still some holding back. While in New York, he gamely appeared before a group of Italian-American leaders, whose feelings had been rubbed the wrong way by his seeming lack of rapport with ethnics and his use of the pronunciation "Eye-ta-lian" in his acceptance speech. Later, Lawyer Peter Cella, who scheduled the session, said: "One has to respect Carter for his political professionalism. We determined that he showed sensitivity and sincerity. Still, we are adopting a healthy skepticism...
...some suburbs, tennis courts are outselling swimming pools. At a minimum cost of $11,000, they greatly enhance property values and encourage togetherness. Explains a New Jersey housewife: "The boys will use it. And if my husband is playing around, at least I'll be able to keep my eye on him." Around the country, the rent-a-court tennis party is beginning to challenge cocktails and the sit-down dinner party as standard entertainment. It is also blossoming as the ideal way to draw large congenial crowds for local benefits, like raising money for the P.T.A. Tennis camps...
...ball.' " Frosty silences can be plangent too. Carl Rowan remembers that when he used to play with his wife Vivien (a better player than he is), there were times when he did not dare look at her on the court. "I knew if I caught her eye, we'd spat." They get on better now because his game has improved. Ira Herrick, a suburban New York mixed-doubles player, remembers that once while playing with a woman, not his wife, he inadvertently cleared his throat. "Now don't you start in," she said, turning on him. "This...
...orchestra, but still excitement ran high. Stokowski's fabled white mane is now a bit thin and shaggy, but the long, tapered hands still work their expressive magic. So does his pinpointing look. "One conducts with or without a baton," he likes to say, "but it is the eye that really does...
...flourishing production company. His specialty was commercials that recalled old movies. One showed a freshly forlorn figure at a railway station, trudging through clouds of locomotive steam, accompanied by the Rachmaninoff theme from Brief Encounter and making his melancholy way home to break open a Birds Eye Frozen Dinner for One. Parker made over 600 commercials in less than six years, hankering all the while to do something more expansive...