Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been left far behind. That was the Pat who attracted such honors as Outstanding Homemaker ('53), Mother of the Year ('55) and Nation's Ideal Housewife ('57) by forever curling her own hair and pressing her husband's suits. The curlers and the traveling iron have now been packed away, as have many of the plain Republican cloth coats that Nixon made so much of in his famous 1952 Checkers speech. With the spotlight constantly trained on her, the First Lady has succumbed at last to the world of mink and designer labels...
...Braque's figures lack personality, his still lifes possess it. One finds a whole cast of characters: tables, for instance, run the gamut from the stolid turned legs under The Pink Tablecloth to the drowned and tilted marine landscape of The Billiard Table, 1944-52, to the iron legs of The Gueridon, 1935, flexing gaily like Isadora Duncan at practice...
...This solution is hardly likely, if only because Montreal has been promised an Olympics and the U.S.S.R. is already pressing for Moscow Games in 1980. Others contend that the Olympics would be immeasurably improved by the elimination of "shamateurism"-a portmanteau term designed to describe the practice, common among Iron Curtain and some other countries, of subsidizing their "amateur" athletes as fully as any professionals. Those who favor such government support call for an "open" Olympics in which professional and amateur athletes would compete, much as they do in tennis and golf. Certainly some basic regulations must be updated...
Died. The Most Rev. James A. McNulty, 72, iron-willed, hot-tempered Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo; a conservative in matters of doctrine and discipline who nonetheless championed the cause of the poverty stricken in his own diocese and in Latin America; of a stroke; in Montclair...
...tearing down the school system to take care of his radical friends," he said. "In a crisis Frisoli knows more about the community than a man from Chicago." "It's a political game," Fantini said. "It is Mr. Wylie's intention to run the school system with an iron list...