Word: mane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of Genesis without confronting the problem of how to treat the Biblical notion of Woman, but Miller, although aware of the problem, remains ambivalent. Susan Batson's acting makes Eve a sympathetic character--she is not only beautiful, with a body like a pre-Columbian statuette and a mane of luxuriant waist-length hair: she is also vitally strong Her husky voice and panther-like blackness rescue her from being a cloying sweet Eve, and she generally overcomes even the most romantically sentimental of Miller's lines. The author, however, doesn't quite know what to do with Woman...
...farther. He brought Sargent Shriver along, hoping that Shriver's warmer relations with L.B.J. might help ease the chill of the meeting. At Johnson's insistence, neither staff nor reporters were invited. Johnson greeted the candidates in ranch clothes and a flowing, whitish Buffalo Bill mane. Sitting in lawn chairs beneath a towering oak as they sipped iced tea, then going inside the ranch house for a steak lunch, the trio chatted for almost three hours. L.B.J. offered some campaign advice: talk to people on the phone for at least two hours every day; make sure...
...flashing the toothy Kennedy smile, tossing the thick Kennedy mane and speaking in the metallic Kennedy accent, did Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver sound the old Kennedy rallying call last week. She candidly admits that her husband Sargent Shriver, the Democratic candidate for Vice President, created a certain coolness among some Kennedy clansmen by staying on to serve in both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations and not sufficiently pitching in to aid Bobby's 1968 campaign. Nothing, however, takes the chill off as quickly as a hotly contested political race for high stakes. "There have been problems," says Eunice...
...bail them out once again with another vapid press release praising the Chinese hospitality the analogy of the week award was given to one clever reporter who thought that China was more intriguing than the moon. But every one agreed that Erik Sevareid topped it with his continuous mane mutterings that the Chinese educational system was calculated to destroy the minds of Chinese youth. (Sound familiar?) But the Nixons did try to show their appreciation Pat Nixon, dutifully fulfilled her material duties by falling in love with the children and the food "I love Chinese cooking anywhere in the world...
Wright Morris has been married twice but has no children. At 61, he is as spare as his prose. A gentle-looking, though apparently rough-hewn character, he wears a subdued lion's mane of silver-white hair. For years he has made some of his living at part-time jobs, especially teaching. He is currently at Princeton for a year. During the past decade he has been a creative-writing instructor at troubled San Francisco State, an excellent place to get acquainted with the kind of radical young whom he treats in Fire Sermon with ambiguous reserve...