Word: lindsays
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...Muller and Jorg Steiner. Gull's-eye views of the islands seem three-dimensional, and the huge pictures of ancient machinery and people have a Shakespearean sweep. "He always worked a triple-hinged surprise/ To end the scene and make one rub his eyes." So wrote Poet Vachel Lindsay about the master of the trick ending, O. Henry. None of his stories has received more notice than The Gift of the Magi (Neugebauer; $11.95); none is more appropriate to the season. As Christmas approaches, a young bride with long, luxuriant hair sells her locks to buy a watch...
...aide--who worked under Wiedenbaum and is now working for Feldstein--said that the Harvard professor may be able to exert more influence. Although he refused to comment on Feldstein's first three weeks on the job, Laurence Lindsay, a staff economist, noted that Feldstein's economic specialty places him in a better position to advise the President. He noted that Wiedenbaum's fields of expertise were defense spending and regulation. The first put him at odds with his boss. The second, while important, was not at the forefront of the Reagan program. "If you look at a list...
...thought the notion of New York as Fun City died with the Lindsay administration? No such thing. In A Little Sex, Manhattan is still where a coupla crazy kids can get their Wasp jollies while jogging through Central Park, skateboarding past the Chrysler Building and making love in an apartment the size of the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian wing. He (Tim Matheson) is a young Mad Ave. careerist. She (Kate Capshaw, whose resemblance to both Julie Christie and Diane Keaton makes her odds-on favorite as Warren Beatty's next costar) teaches at a girls' private school...
...Hall was actually built during the the mayoralty of John Collins, at a time when Boston's government was fairly aloof and insensitive. When Kevin White was elected mayor in 1967, as part of a wave of young and progressive big-city mayors that included New York's John Lindsay and Cleveland's Cart Stokes, he worked hard to change that. He developed an innovative program of "little city halls" designed to increase communication between neighborhoods and city government. With the array of grassroots public interest organizations around today, it's hard to imagine the effect White's approach...
Draper Laboratories was created by MIT and still retains informal ties with the university MIT divested itself of the facility in 1971 after students protested its defense ties, Lindsay said...