Word: homespun
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...more modest. The hurrahs were subdued last week after the eldest son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi-and the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru-won a landslide by-election victory and captured the parliamentary seat vacated as a result of Sanjay's death last June. Wearing the white homespun kurta-pajama favored by Indian politicians, Rajiv met simply with a few friends and reporters at his mother's house, where he lives...
...Talleys exude homespun Americanism, right down to the two stars in the window, which indicate two men at war: Buddy's younger brother Timmy is a Marine fighting in the central Pacific...
Savings and loan associations are almost as homespun as Jimmy Stewart. In Frank Capra's 1946 movie It's a Wonderful Life, the actor played an embattled S and L officer who eventually triumphs over evildoers when depositors unite to save his business. The nation's 4,600 S and Ls could use a little of the Capra grass-roots rescue treatment right now. Along with their sister "thrifts," the 460 mutual savings S and L banks are caught in a profit squeeze that some analysts fear could lead to their collapse and ultimately to U.S. financial...
...named Harry Tammen and a rich but tightfisted developer, Fred Bonfils. For the next several decades, the two partners made the Post one of the liveliest, if least respected newspapers in the country. Advertisers were bullied, civic leaders were indiscriminately attacked, and readers came to know Publisher Bonfils' homespun creed: "A dogfight in a Denver street is more important than a war in Europe." Yet the formula worked; the afternoon Post regularly outsold its morning rival, the Rocky Mountain News (now owned by the Scripps-Howard chain). As Tammen liked to say, "We're yellow...
...century England, and the English still love him: in every way, the big Gainsborough retrospective now on view at London's Tate Gallery is a ceremony of national taste. Organized by Art Historian John Hayes, it traces Gainsborough's career from his beginnings as apprentice painter of homespun Suffolk dignitaries to his apotheosis as the most popular and sought-after portraitist of the Georgian ruling classes. There are more than 150 paintings and drawings, although some of his best-known work-like the Blue Boy, or the exquisite portrait, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, in the National Gallery...