Word: figments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about Catherine Oxenberg every now and then, but she disappeared from the spotlight back in the fall of 1979 once classes got serious. I, for one, have enjoyed the old pangs stirred up by Catherine's reemergence, not to mention the news that she was neither murdered nor the figment of someone's imagination...
...Hugh Sidey thinks Nancy's problems are "more media figment than real." Nancy Reagan, with her emphasis on warm elegance in this period of hardship for most of the country, offends me mightily. I am not irritated by what has been published about her; I am annoyed by what she does...
Digging in White House mail suggests that the Nancy problems may always have been more media figment than real. Of the 60,000 letters addressed to Mrs. Reagan in the year, 90% are supportive or inquisitive, not negative. The great dress loan episode, believed by writers to be the most scandalous, drew 50 letters, barely a public nod. Decorating the White House with money donated by millionaires was supported 10 to 1. The new dishes were approved 3 to 1. With those results in, it is not much fun for the press to be against nesting...
Thank you for your article "Coping with Eve's Curse" [July 27]. I've suffered for ten years with menstrual pain, and let me assure you, it's not just a figment of my imagination. Ironically, some of the most unsympathetic responses I've heard have been from other women; from the high school nurse who offered me a peppermint, to the nurse at the hospital emergency room who told me that I'd just have to wait until I had my first baby. She advised that then maybe the pain would subside. Simple acceptance...
That ain't just a figment of fancy from the John Travolta movie. All across the country, from the canyons of Manhattan to the chic watering holes of Beverly Hills and, of course, the salons of the Southwest, it is Lone Ranger and Tonto time. City dudes are sporting wide-brimmed cowpoke sombreros (often with Indian accents of feathers and turquoise-inlaid headbands), yoke shirts, off-the-range Levi's, brass- or gold-buckled belts and high-steppin' boots of alligator or snakeskin. Some real rootin' tooters tote leather holsters (empty) and cartridge belts. The lady...