Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino was handed a note during the impeachment debate last Thursday afternoon. He glanced at it, then arched an eyebrow at CBS Reporter Roger Mudd, who followed a messenger from the committee room. Mudd learned that a bomb threat was about to interrupt the meeting and that the bomb's alleged location was in "a CBS camera." "I guess that this is one of those things that television brings," he said on the air during the ensuing recess...
...Other eyebrow-raising innovations are coming, including Giscard's plans for this week's inauguration ceremony at the Elysée. Male guests were asked to leave their striped pants at home and come in ordinary business suits. Giscard, who will be wearing a suit instead of the traditional white tie and tails, planned to forsake the usual armada of limousines and motorcycles and arrive at the palace on foot. There he would review not the silver-helmeted Garde Républicaine but a unit of the First Army's Second Dragoon Regiment, in which he served...
...Hendin, of this single remaining taboo; a taboo being bombarded, however, by an army of books, articles, monographs and courses on the subject. Hendin calls his contribution "A realistic look at the medical and emotional aspects of death." It is an unpretentious, informative and honestly sensitive confrontation with some eyebrow-raising facts...
...offering not only security, fringe benefits, promotion and good pay, but also foreign travel and exciting assignments. According to an eight-page brochure available at government employment offices, men and women are needed in more than 40 professions-from map makers and pharmacologists to computer programmers and historians. The eyebrow-raiser is the address to which prospective applicants should write: the headquarters of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, or Federal Intelligence Service, Bonn's equivalent of the CIA. What that agency wants to hire is spies...
...musical expression over the splashy sound and bravura display of solo and orchestral work. Each, whether he is naturally lighthearted, like Flutist Karl ("Fritz") Kraber, or intensely dedicated, like Oboist Charles Kuskin, must have the empathy to take a tempo from a nod or a cue from a raised eyebrow...