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...color was celadon, a haunting shade of pale green applied in rich, oily glazes. Breaking from the self-conscious traditions of the Chinese, the Korean potters indulged their own romantic sensibilities, producing elegant, elongated vessels. Some bloomed into flowers and animals-a water dropper took the form of a monkey; a tea dish the shape of a water lily...
...critic, in prime-time programming. Naturally enough, Silverman has devoted almost all his attention to programming. Says an NBC executive: "Fred is like an eager little boy with a highly developed feeling and sense of how to fix programs, and he couldn't care less about all this monkey business about corporate skill and management...
...emerged once again as a strong number two man behind Brown. "Basically, I was using my head a lot better out there and pacing myself because I had gone two innings in the first game. When you're up a few runs, you don't monkey around against hitters like these. You just put it hard over the plate," he said afterwards...
...necessarily oppose the Fed's raising interest rates, but he did not want the voters to blame him for it. Said a White House staff member: "There was a feeling that if a Democratic Administration was even tighter than the Federal Reserve Board, something was wrong. Put the monkey on the Fed's back, not ours...
...would not spend time quietly at San Clemente." Says Ford: "It would be virtually impossible for me to direct public attention to anything else ... [At Yale Law School] I learned that public policy often took precedence over rule of law." Consequently, he decided to pardon Nixon "to get the monkey off my back one way or the other." Ford adds: "Compassion for Nixon as an individual hadn't prompted my decision...