Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many see little to choose ideologically between the two: both suit their conservative instincts just fine. Surprisingly few are holding out in hope of a job or other favor. A number miss in Ford the image of a decisive leader that they perceive in Reagan, and yet they are reluctant to discard an incumbent who they believe has performed passably well in difficult circumstances...
...Elizabeth Ray, 33, whom he employed as a $14,000-a-year committee clerk although she claims that she can neither type nor file. The portly Congressman, 65, who in January divorced one wife after 38 years of marriage and six weeks ago wed his secretary, denied only that Miss Ray's federal salary was awarded solely for sexual services. She was not, insisted Hays, "hired to be my mistress...
...MISS HERBERT...
Feminist novels today tend to present women in two ways: as either prisoners of gender or lately freed to pursue Tom Jones' pleasures and echo Alexander Portnoy's complaints. Christina Stead's Miss Herbert belongs to a less transitory category. It is a novel about an Englishwoman that does not discriminate on the basis...
...every billing it was the musical that could not miss. At the top of the credit lines for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue were two of the arts' most potent names: Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner of My Fair Lady and Camelot fame and West Side Story Composer Leonard Bernstein. The show, about the lives and times of 13 early Presidents, was a Bicentennial natural, and the Coca-Cola Co. eagerly footed the $1.2 million cost of bringing a 45-member cast and a 30-piece orchestra together for five weeks of rehearsals in New York and tryouts in Philadelphia and Washington...