Word: looked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roading daily Verdens Gang called the Washington situation a "circus" and a "balancing act without a safety net." Concluded London's conservative Daily Mail: "From this side of the Atlantic, Jimmy Carter's frenzied efforts to revive his personal standing with voters before the next presidential election look more like a narcissistic charade than a national crusade. Mr. Carter's subliminal question to America remains the same: 'How do I look now, folks?' " The weekly Economist of London, perhaps the staunchest supporter of the U.S. in the European press, bemoaned Carter's "amateurism...
This is a disorganized and sometimes insensitive Jimmy Carter, overreacting to demands for leadership in an effort to save himself, seemingly unable to look ahead and see how his actions will affect the country. This is an uncertain Jimmy Carter trying to show how tough he is. It is true that many influential voices pleaded with Carter to be more decisive. Given his dismal political prospects and his genuine personal distress over the national attitude, an environment for extreme action was created, to which Carter responded...
...scrub-haired, passionately erudite man of 50, Arikha is best known in Paris, where he lives with his wife Anne, a poet, and his two daughters. Now a show of 22 of his oils at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., gives an American audience its first look at his extremely subtle paintings...
...hurried flight") to verbal lasers of lancing irony ("Hard to believe that love is free now/ Welfare mothers make better lovers"). Young is in such thorough command throughout that he can jump a century between lines of a verse, begin a song like Powderfinger as a folk tale ("Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river"), then turn it into an apocalypse. Of all rock's major figures, Young seems to have absorbed the most from the punk movement. The music on this record, punched up in part by Young's band...
...support himself, during the lull of tap dancing's popularity, Collins says he left the stage and opened a garage. For over a decade he cleaned engines, varnished hoods, did body work--and refused to look at a variety show. "I was afraid if I saw people dancing I'd go back into show biz even though there was no money for tap dancers. As I'm a realistic person I felt I had to stick with the steady income of my garage," he explains...