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...certainly familiar, but the actors had changed. Instead of Senator Sam Ervin in the chair of the ornate Caucus Room in the Old Senate Office Building, where the nation had seen and heard Watergate unfold, there sat Senator J. William Fulbright, tan and lean from his vacation. Flanking Fulbright were the members of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee...
...KING OF LESOTHO. The lean and bespectacled Moshoeshoe II, 35, made a determined attempt in 1970 to curb the power of his roly-poly Prime Minister, Chief Leabua Jonathan, in the tiny Maryland-sized state that is completely surrounded by South Africa. He failed, however, and since then has confined himself to a consultant's role. Moshoeshoe (pronounced mo-shway-shway) may well be the best-educated man in Lesotho. He studied for three years at Oxford, and still travels to Britain each year to bone up on the latest in political economy. At home in Lesotho, Moshoeshoe spends...
...Grey. He did not deny that he had said those words-"Why I agreed to it [the interview], I'll never know," he confessed later-but it was a little hard to imagine just how the precise, bespectacled professor of history at Harvard could see himself as a lean, flinty-eyed macho on horseback. Still, in a way Kissinger's self-portrait was not so preposterous as it sounded. Proud, private and consummately confident of his ability, Kissinger has always acted alone, rising to his present eminence with the aid of almost no one but himself...
...much of Wyeth's success flows from nostalgia. Many people would like to project themselves at first hand, exchanging-for half an hour -their self-cleaning ovens for the black, bulbous wood stove that squats in the Ericksons' kitchen, and their disaster-crammed TV screens for the lean prospect glimpsed from the Olsons' attic window. Small wonder, then, that Wyeth's critics have dismissed "the other Andy" (as one of them, thinking of Warhol, called him) as a fabulist, and his images as a sentimental mix of frontierland and Cold Comfort Farm. The objection is almost...
...FRIEND of mine in Adams House told me about a recurring dream she has. The House seems to become the last refuge of a disaster wrecked earth. It quickly fills up with refugees from distant places--like Dunster House. Cots appear in the dining room, strange faces lean against the walls in the underground tunnels. The pick of Widener's collection is transported to the House, and quickly overflows the House library, forming stacks in the entryways. She attributes the dream to exam period, but I'll bet that plenty of Harvard administrators have lately ben having the same fantasy...