Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sources shared Hughes' hidden years ?and broke the silence still maintained by the rest of the penthouse staffers. One is Melvin Stewart, 49, an open-faced Mormon and former barber who was the nurse who tended Hughes' bedsores and took care of him. Beneath the easygoing manner of a small-town Utah boy, Stewart is keen and tough-minded. The other is Gordon Margulis, 45, a muscular, street-smart cockney who spent his early years in London's tough East End. In 1965 Margulis set out to visit his sister in New York City, then rambled throughout much...
...certain sensitivity lurks beneath his dull manner, however. He goes all gooey, for instance, over his pet turtles, Cuff and Link. And the lady who works in the pet shop (Talia Shire) exerts a claim on his shy heart, though of course he has trouble articulating his feelings. There is really no place for poor Rocky to go but up-if only because an entire film devoted to so dreary a fellow would be intolerable. Almost immediately it is clear that this is another trip up the trail immortally, definitively explored by Brando in On the Waterfront over two decades...
...trade journal for baseball nuts. The intrusion of sports similes is usually read as the utmost rebuke, but this analogy should not be taken that way. Both Sporting News and Daedalus can be purveyors of valuable information--although Sporting News is so in a much less pretentious manner--when these publications offer their contributors the time and space to provide something new or original. "American Civilization: New Perspectives" does not transcend those limitations...
RICHARD BOLLING, 60, of Missouri, who has served almost half of his life in the House. Though he is highly respected. Boiling's haughty intellectual manner sometimes ruffles colleagues. A ranking member of the Rules Committee, Boiling is a keen parliamentarian who has written two books critical of the House. If elected. Boiling would push for congressional reform and a liberal approach on domestic matters...
...intricacies of macroeconomics or international finance. "I belong to the 'people school' of economics," he told TIME. Right after the election he also said, "It's awfully important that [Carter] show people early on that he can deal with the economy in a positive manner. The confidence factor is the biggest thing...