Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even more distressing to his comrades on the right was Russell's approval of two "liberal" commissions. One is currently investigating the policy of linkage, which would force commercial developers to build a certain amount of housing for each office complex they erect. The second committee will keep an eye on the actions of the Cambridge police, who faced several allegations of racial discrimination this spring. Both votes betray the traditional conservative support of business and the autonomy of city institutions...
Koppel says that he also cares about his family and his privacy. He will not speak in any detail about his four children, whom he hopes to keep out of the public eye. And he notes with pride that his wife took and passed the bar exam on her first attempt and now practices...
...Missouri State Senator Harriett Woods, 56, who in 1982 narrowly lost her bid for the U.S. Senate to Republican Incumbent John Danforth, is moving into the national spotlight again with a race for Lieutenant Governor. In Oklahoma, four-term State Representative Cleta Deatherage Mitch ell, 33, caught the eye of national Democratic officials with her savvy performance as a member of the party's Hunt commission on delegate selection. In 18 months as Texas state treasurer, Ann Richards, 50, has won over bankers and businessmen by increasing the interest the state earns on its deposits; a liberal supporter...
...bounded onto the tarmac at a Buenos Aires airport that the years have taken none of the sass out of the indefatigable Isabel, who once earned a living as a cabaret dancer. Sporting a shiny brown leather coat, with a swatch of honey-blond hair falling over her right eye, she strode up to a group of Perónist party leaders, wagged an admonishing finger at them and declared, "Whoever misbehaves will get a spanking." Later, she continued jousting coquettishly with members of the Perónist National Council who had gathered in her hotel suite...
...public eye first blinked at him in 1978 when he opened his raincoat in front of a statue in downtown Portland, Ore. A resulting poster, Expose Yourself to Art, sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide and made Bar Owner J.E. ("Bud") Clark, 52, something of a local celebrity. When the bearded, self-proclaimed agnostic announced he was running for mayor this year, everyone was again amused. He campaigned diligently, however, and Incumbent Frank Ivancie worriedly began calling him "a born-again pagan." The vitriol backfired, and Clark astonished the disbelievers by stomping Ivancie and three other candidates with...