Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope that the question could be avoided was dispelled last week when Michael Kinsley, editor of the New Republic, resigned because Editor in Chief Martin Peretz killed an article about Kennedy's alleged womanizing. Said Kinsley: "My impression is that it was not the substance of the piece that bothered Marty, but the concept of discussing people's personal lives in the New Republic. " Peretz curtly offered that it was not "the right kind of piece...
Predictably enough, Kennedy's presidential bid has also revived press stories about Chappaquiddick. his 1951 expulsion from Harvard for cheating and anything else that might illumine his character. Last week New York Times Columnist William Safire dredged up a 1958 reckless driving conviction: as a law student at the University of Virginia, Kennedy tried to elude a pursuing police officer, Safire reported, then was found hiding in the front seat of his car. Safire concluded: "When in big trouble, Ted Kennedy's repeated history has been to run, to hide, to get caught and to get away with...
Connally and Reagan grudgingly accepted the offer-the Texan's first ad, which cost about $31,000, was shown last week -but Carter was determined to get 30 minutes in early December to announce for reelection. His campaign committee filed a complaint with the FCC. "For them to say that the political season hasn't started is absurd," said a Carter aide. "The reason they don't want to sell the time is because it'll cost them money...
...Last year a group of angry defectors demanded an investigation into Barham's operations. The California department of consumer affairs looked into the accusation that psychodrama sessions were taking place without a trained therapist in attendance. The department cleared the Barhams: ordained ministers of Barham's church can legally supervise such sessions under California law. This spring the San Diego district attorney's office investigated a report that a ten-year-old girl had been molested by her entity, but no charges have been brought because of lack of evidence...
...political Luftmensch, reeling off harmless Utopian generalizations about social renewal through universal creativity, supporting the Free International University, and engaging in squabbles with the Düsseldorf Academy. This, however, is less social sculpture than social packaging. Beuys is a master of the art of self-representation, the last man to become a real celebrity (as distinct from a mere famous artist) through the medium of the art world. He is the Duchamp of the engages, a position he laid formal claim to in 1964 by exhibiting a placard on West German television which read, "The silence of Marcel Duchamp...