Word: modishly
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...Mexico City schlemiel and the Munich superstar are the same person: Mark Andrew Spitz of Carmichael, Calif. The sullen, abrasively cocky kid with the sunken visage has matured into a smooth, adroitly confident young man with modish locks and mustache. More important, he has developed into a talent without peer in the world of competitive swimming. In the four years since his personal disaster in Mexico City, where he won only two gold medals (and those in relay events), Spitz has grown up, graduated from college and at one time or another broken 28 world freestyle and butterfly records. That...
Cambridge Survey was the brainchild of modish Caddell, a bright and articulate student of numbers who started doing election projections for a local TV station while still a high school student in Jacksonville, Fla. In 1970 Caddell and his fellow members of the Class of 1972 worked for 180 an hour and expenses during John Gilligan's Ohio gubernatorial primary campaign. The three worked hard, polled diligently and filed a 2,000-page report of the findings that because of its ponderous volume probably and properly went unread...
...lived in Georgetown, the Andersons are in Bethesda, Md. Although Pearson was heartily disliked by many in Washington, he was a sought-after catch for the more important hostesses. The Andersons are on no one's In guest list and candidly do not care. Anderson will never be modish, though now, at 49, he dresses spiffily and even tints his graying sideburns (his television producer wants it that...
...image of his own half-studied, uncouth offstage self. A onetime "pool junkie" (the all-nighters over the billiard table may explain his hunched posture), Falk is still a steady gambler on "baskets, pro ball and the fights." Though his wife of eleven years is fond of her modish lifestyle in Beverly Hills, Falk says, "I don't go to nobody's home. I'm not comfortable sitting in living rooms. I happen to like the kitchen better...
...slow, often painful evolution that is shaping a new kind of doctor. He still represents only a vocal minority, but his attitudes are significant: - >He is more like his grandfather than his father, preferring the model of the old general practitioner to that of the specialist or researcher. The modish catch phrases and aspirations are "community medicine, " "family medicine," "household medicine." He recognizes the inadequacies of the old G.P., but thinks that better training can overcome them. He acknowledges the need for specialists, but envisions them as part of a team. "Specialists take one organ and ig nore everything else...