Word: looks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little to enhance Ohira's stature, either in the Diet or in his own party. Fumed one L.D.P. member: "At first, I didn't think he should resign, but later I decided he should-not because of the election, but because he made our party look so damn foolish...
...impregnable as the corporation it houses. The company cultivates an image of efficiency and dignity, taking special care to preserve an aura of sacrosanct wisdom in its most senior executive offices on the 14th floor of the building. But an entertaining and surely controversial new book makes that aura look more like a fog as it lifts some of the confidentiality from the world's largest industrial corporation...
Cash flow may be the reason that John Paul called such a meeting so early in his reign. The Vatican's tight financial secrecy has encouraged reports of fabulous financial holdings, by some accounts as high as $2 billion. In fact, when John Paul got his first look at the Vatican books, he was apparently shocked at how little wealth there is. Like more worldly organizations, the Vatican is plagued by galloping inflation and an increasingly high overhead. The major problem is the swollen staff of more than 3,000 which John Paul inherited from Paul VI, a born...
...Auden's life. He slows down only for amusing anecdotes, witty remarks (chiefly Auden's) and occasional but discreet lists of who was sleeping with whom. A few of the subject's stomach spots are here, to be sure, but Osborne makes most of them look like beauty marks...
...concert film. The band members do not appear in the movie as performers but turn up only in the background score and occasional still photographs. Rather than make a safe companion piece to the film version of Tommy, The Who have daringly cross-fertilized American Graffiti with Look Back in Anger...