Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quality of the incumbents fallen off," as your piece asserts, or do officeholders just look worse because of television? No one can emerge from such scrutiny without appearing as human as the rest of us, not even a George Washington or an Abraham Lincoln...
Here is what Red Stovall has: a numerous family whose farm is turning to dust, an inexplicable Lincoln convertible, a guitar, an invitation to audition for the Grand Ole Opry and a case of tuberculosis teetering on the brink of the terminal...
...succeeded Balanchine as artistic director of New York City Ballet. There has been no formal announcement. Balanchine's authority, when he is able to exercise it, is still unquestioned. But at 78 he is in very weak health, hospitalized since early November with balance and circulatory problems. Says Lincoln Kirstein, 75, "Mr. B.'s" longtime partner: "Peter Martins is running the company. He is not displacing anyone, or pushing anyone...
...world is in fact very small: the few blocks between Lincoln Center and his apartment overlooking Central Park. For several years he shared his life with N.Y.C.B. Principal Heather Watts, 29, for whom he created a number of parts. That is now over, and there is speculation among City Ballet watchers about his relationship with Ballerina Darci Kistler, 18. "What can I call Darci?" he muses. "She is a very close friend, a girl who is focused and dedicated. I like that in people." His leisure time is limited to an occasional Jeep ride to a hilltop aerie he owns...
...both saddled and blessed with an old father who was already fading into vivid history. The poet regaled his child with anecdotes: "He could remember his grandmother on her deathbed, talking of Andy Jackson, of how she had heard him speak one time. His father and grandfather had known Lincoln, had hired Abe as a lawyer...