Word: impressibly
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...preservationists, who fought a losing three-day legal battle to stop the demolition, the shock was a mockery: they learned in May that the owners planned to strip the 26-story Biltmore and convert it into a bank headquarters. Keepsake nostalgia for the 68-year-old hotel did not impress its proprietors. "The Biltmore is not architecturally significant," said Renovation Architect Michael Gordon. The famous lobby timepiece, at least, will return after the rebuilding. Yet will anyone rush to an assignation "under the clock at the Bank of America...
...during the Carter years because of Guatemala's deplorable human rights record. The prompt arrests, however, seemed to vindicate the government's system of justice and disprove charges that its security forces may have been involved in the killing. Government officials hoped the arrests would impress newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Frederic Chapin, who is expected to arrive in the country at the end of this month...
...belongs to Simone Signoret. After 40 years in movies, Signoret has the sturdy, pouched, life-lined charm of an old duffel bag. She is a marvelous behavioral actress. Smiles and tears are easy enough, but no one is better than Signoret at sitting still, daring life to try and impress her. Luckily for her, in France actors are not asked to stay svelte and sexy into senility. The family doctor looked at Signoret and encouraged her to put on weight, go gray, show her age, be herself-and still be a star. At 61, she has earned her Letter...
Europeans will urge the U.S. at least to resume intervention in the currency markets, selling dollars to keep their price in pounds, francs and marks from zooming still higher. But they have little hope of getting any commitment. They will be satisfied if they can impress on Reagan the necessity for the U.S. to consider the effects of its moves on foreign economies...
...President's rhetoric fails to impress blacks...