Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoy a slight edge. But Curtis plods along. "I've never won an election on personality," he readily admits. He is ranking Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, and his expertise in money matters rivals that of anyone in government today. He has a lawyer's pernickety eye for the fine print in legislation, has often voted against bills that he co-sponsored because they were diluted by minor amendments to which he objected. But while he impresses voters with his seriousness, integrity and knowledge, he also bores them with more details about fiscal policy than they want...
...these disfiguring birthmarks have given rise to a lot of old wives' tales and maternal self-reproach, most have no medical significance. An exception is the massive port-wine stain with which Michael Wood was born nearly five years ago. The huge birthmark extended from around the right eye down the side of his face to the neck...
...Virginia Woolf's many imitators who learned something positive from her fragile literary experiments. Instead of stringing endless psychological trivia, Bowen builds a strong psychic mood by carefully picking her details-cars, lies, daydreams-and arranging them with an experienced, measuring feminine eye...
...meantime, until something happens, the press has to keep its eye on Wallace and not worry too much about his folks. For some reason--maybe because of the incompetence and laziness of Wallace's small, sinister-looking entourage, or more likely because of the very fact that Wallace's candidacy is the only one of the three that owes its existence to mass support rather than organizational backing--the Wallace campaign looks more chaotic and uninteliigible from up close than it does from a distance...
...Rivera, and its occupant takes particular pride in the company's futuristic new logo, which is emblazoned in 24-ft.-high letters near the top of the 70-floor building. Yet Sarnoff seems to be playing the merger game, a favorite pastime of new-breed executives, with an eye more for posterity than for the present. He dismisses St. Regis' problems as the result of "a temporary overcapacity in the paper industry." Adds Sarnoff: "We would rather have a company with a sound growth rate than one of the highflyers, some of which are showing signs of indigestion...