Word: floridity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vehement author who modestly (or prudently) signed himself only "an Englishman"? TIME has learned that he is Thomas Paine, 39, a blunt, quick, florid immigrant, lately editor of the successful Pennsylvania Magazine. Just two years ago he resided in England and called himself "Pain." And pain has been his lot. He is a failed tax official, a failed tobacconist, a failed husband, and a frequent failure at the humble trade to which he was apprenticed?that of corsetmaker. His second wife paid him £ 35 as part of the agreement by which he left her house (she is reported...
...lawyer and, perhaps, President of the U.S. Now a self-assured 13, Jodie Foster wants instead to be "a very good actress," a goal for which she is almost frighteningly well endowed. What hooked her on acting as a career was the movie Taxi Driver (TIME, Feb. 16), a florid melodrama of Manhattan's streets that is mostly memorable for Jodie's portrayal, as to the bordello born, of the trick-wise twelve-year-old whore...
Inside the glazed lobby of an office building at 88 Pine Street in downtown Manhattan, another Manhattan has been hatched: a florid, jaunty and raucous chick, quite like its big mother...
...already has a two-thirds majority in Parliament, there would be no need for her to risk a campaign and all its attendant criticism from opposition leaders and an unshackled press. There are signs of a drift toward a cult of personality. The back of one bus bears the florid declaration COURAGE AND CLARITY OF VISION, THY NAME IS INDIRA GANDHI. The government-run television has also stepped up its already lavish coverage of the Prime Minister and her Cabinet...
Very little of this--not even the fact that Crooks is worried--will get through to John Dwinell, the director of the Harvard Graduate Society, an alumni organization for people who studied for their doctorates here. Dwinell, a large and florid man, has a proposition for Crooks this morning--or, more bluntly, he needs a favor. Dwinell's constituency now gets half-price on Summer School tuition, but he's trying to put together a special package to increase their loyalty to Harvard...