Word: makeups
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Ultimately the Navy and the Administration will have to make some new decisions about the Sixth Fleet's makeup and mission. It now defends NATO's supply lines, provides a small but sinewy landing force, supports and protects the Polaris nuclear submarines that operate out of the U.S. bases of Rota, Spain, and Holy Loch, Scotland, and furnishes a nuclear punch in ease of war. With aging ships and outmoded ordnance, it is difficult enough to carry out those assignments. Since the fleet is taking on the added mission of neutralizing the Russians, the job may be growing...
Status Cachet. In trying to overcome the problem of the Times's gray, visually intimidating makeup, Salisbury has recently brightened Op-Ed's appearance by the use of more pictures and cartoons. In Washington, particularly, an appearance on the Op-Ed page has become a status cachet. Salisbury admits that "it's become a prestige thing for bureaucrats. We have to fight them off." White House Staffers Robert Finch, Herbert Klein and William Safire have practiced what some readers regard as blatant pro-Nixon puffery in their Op-Ed contributions, but Salisbury insists that he has returned...
...common) that a minor change has produced a major shift. With the appointments of Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice Harry Blackmun, both the vote and the psychological advantage have shifted to the side of restraint. Explains one close court observer: "The substitution of X for Y in the makeup of the court changes the personality of the entire group. Somebody who was affirmative because he was sure he represented the majority becomes defensive when he realizes that he's now in the minority." As a result, says another observer, Stanford Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam, "the liberals have tucked...
...arrived a bit early?about three hours early. A makeup girl laboriously tried to "play down" what she called a "big nose" and then sent me backstage to stew. Anxiety clawed at my chest. "I had hoped that a taxi would knock me down on my way to the studio," I said to Dick Cavett. He replied laconically, "That's New York; you never can get a taxi when you want one." Running a talk show, Cavett and his staff had warned, was not as easy as it appeared. But I was prepared to try, and had memorized...
Some big lights of the movies were hiding under bushels. For Jerry Lewis it was a bushel of clown makeup, which disguised his identity as he brought down the house at Paris' Cirque d'Hiver benefit for old and ailing showfolk. And when Ringmaster Maria Callas announced who the clown really was, the house came down all over again. For Jerry is an important personage in France, an actor whose films are seriously studied. Lewis says he is even thinking of moving to Paris-"a good place to come if you're feeling low." For Bette Davis...