Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temporary accord will remain in place until Dec. 31. Meanwhile, trade officials will try to hammer out a permanent pact. "It buys time," concluded Frans Andriessen, vice president of the E.C. commission. Said a pleased Yeutter: "U.S. exports will be unharmed while we negotiate a fair settlement...
...credit, Pearson gives fair warning that his story is going to take some time in the unraveling and may indeed be more fun for the teller than the audience. While the death of the bald Jeeter is announced smack in the opening, the sad event is inched up on through a series of digressions, including one on the deterioration of the widow Mrs. Askew's drains and downspouts. Not until page 57 is the bald Jeeter laid to rest in the local cemetery of the fictional Neely, N.C., at which time it begins to become clear that the deceased...
After the breakup, Beaton returned to his old inclinations. He became famous for set designs and costumes for theater and films--the ones for My Fair Lady won Oscars--and, on a tour of a San Francisco gay bar called the Toolbox, he met the 29-year-old "boy" who was to be his last great amour. The designermemoirist-photographer -artist went on to honors ranging from placement on the best-dressed list to high-priced one-man shows of his work. He acquired wealthy and titled patrons wherever he displayed his work or himself. But if he appeared elegant...
Kelly does his best to be fair to all. Of Clement VI (1342-52), who proclaimed that his predecessors "had not known how to be Popes" and then began staging bacchanalia for his "niece" and his courtiers, Kelly says judiciously, "The charges brought by contemporaries against his sexual life cannot be explained away, but he was personally devout, a protector of the poor and needy who showed charity and courage when the Black Death appeared at Avignon in 1348-49, and defended the Jews when they were blamed for it." So he did know something about how to be Pope...
...made sex apparatus that gets hoisted up the side of Watergate South because it is too big for the elevators--this is the stuff of Great Trash. In addition, there are herbal wraps at Elizabeth Arden and pokes at perfume ("Bunyan could see his obituary . . . Asphyxiated by Giorgio. Hardly fair, after he'd given up amyl nitrate"). The socially crucial pass in review: Donald Trump shows up in yet another novel. And the patrons of Le Cirque. And the Annenbergs. By now, if this were a just world, they would all be earning royalty checks...