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...least eight months, Steiner contributed time and research to Popkin's council. At Popkin's final appeal hearing. Bok himself argued the defense. And when that failed, Steiner want to Washington to lobby for Popkin's release. Four days later, Popkin was out and the grand jury was kaput...
Neil Simon decides to give a married middle-aged restaurateur a fling or three. Amour: kaput. Laughter: rampant...
...time for a man despite his actions. A Navy veteran in 1946, he won a House seat at the age of 33. He was elected Senator at 37 and Vice President at 39. Ten years later, defeated for the Presidency and the governorship of California, he certified himself politically kaput. Most of the press agreed, including TIME. In 1966, sensing the vacuum in the party, Nixon campaigned tirelessly for G.O.P. candidates in 35 states and claimed a major share in that year's victory. Nixon is only 55, but he has been a national figure for nearly a generation...
...published list changed the private ball to a public event, and gave the social columnists and sociologists a chance to move in. "Almost a joke," said Cleveland Amory, author of Who Killed Society? "Fond as I am of Truman, I think we can say that society is not only kaput-it is Capote." Max Lerner was reminded of Historian Daniel Boorstin's observation that the events of our time turn out, all too frequently, to be pseudo-events...
Another result is that, with such major designers as Bill Blass taking an interest, suits have taken on new subtleties of structure. "Several years ago, the thought was that any woman could be packed into a suit by way of girdling and boning, but today this is kaput," says Bette Beck, chief designer for Elisabeth Stewart. "It takes all the romance out of a swimming suit when a woman has to be pushed in here and held up there. Such a woman has a stamped-out look-very unsexy...