Word: homeyness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equally level-headed. National Review, isn't content to annex only John Kennedy for the Republicans now that the Democrats have slipped off the left side of the earth. He wants it all: Football, drinking, girls (but only the cute ones who wash and wear bras), plus homey things like the flag, religion and the family, which President Reagan has already claimed. If Hart is to be believed, conservatives have irrevocably cornered the market in pleasure commodities. Liberals, particularly those who support affirmative action (which Hart, taking a cue from hero William F. Buckley, Jr., calls "reverse discrimination") are introspective...
Flashiness would only intimidate the clients of the Chatham County Social Services Building in Pittsboro, N.C. This structure was designed by Architect Norma DeCamp Burns of Burnstudio, Raleigh, N.C., to look like a house and convey a homey atmosphere for the staff as well as citizens who come for assistance with Medicare, food stamps and other public welfare programs...
...exactly homey, the mood that Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes has created in the interiors and the charming sculpture garden of the Dallas Museum of Art is certainly inviting, festive and duly dignified all at once...
...weeks and what did you see? A cinemascopic shot of a bunting-bedecked stage set between sunny crowds and smiling skies. Then a closeup of Ronald Reagan, standing against a blue backdrop (always blue) and delivering in patented style (bob of the head, hint of a grin) a homey Americanism. Cut to the faces of his listeners, some aglow in admiration, others damp with tears. A band bursts into melody, balloons sail heavenward, and cheers erupt from a thousand throats...
...taskmaster at work, Barrows also knew how to play. She threw lavish formal Christmas parties for her employees and clients, taking homey snapshots of some of the less circumspect guests. To celebrate New Year's Eve, she allowed her employees to keep half of the take; women who worked through the entire night kept 60%. For all her high living, Barrows believed in noblesse oblige: she volunteered to buy groceries for an elderly neighbor and donated money to the city's Meals-on-Wheels program...