Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women's Wear Daily and gossip columnists were thrilled by the self- consciously lavish example she set. Democratic Socialite Oatsie Charles, an arbiter of Washington taste, was pleased too. "The White House sets the tone for everything that goes on here," says Charles. "It was nice to know that she cared." But many newspaper editorialists and a large portion of the citizenry thought the extravagance unseemly. "She was one of the best single targets for the opposition's attacks about 'fairness' and special interests," says a White House strategist. Thin-skinned Nancy Reagan was wounded by the criticism, especially since...
...Nancy Davis, suddenly the stepdaughter of a socially esteemed Lake Shore Drive surgeon, the Depression was a happy time of summer camp and nice clothes. She played field hockey and went on vacations with doting family friends; Actor Walter Huston was the most memorable. Nancy loved Davis, and wanted to be adopted legally. In the mid-1930s, during a family trip to New York, the teen-age Nancy tracked down Kenneth Robbins and had him sign away his parental rights. "He was my father, but I somehow never could think of him that way," she wrote in Nancy...
Screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds has managed to formulate a plot that barely passes within the audience's credibility threshhold. Rob's wife, Micki (played by the sexy actress/dancer Ann Reinking), is a successful lawyer on the verge of becoming a judge. His job is pleasant enough, and he drives a nice car. What more could a transplanted Englishman want? Little Englishmen, for one thing. Rob desperately loves kids, and after seven years of marriage he wants to have some of his own. Micki, who can barely schedule dinner with her husband, refuses. Potential judges just aren't pregnant, she reasons...
...College hockey is perfect for me," he says. "It's nice to play in front of 3500 people and go out with your friends afterward...
Thant K. Myint-U '87, who had just flown in from Christmas vacation in Bangkok, overcame his exhaustion to see the Secretary because, he said, his grandfather had served as a U.N. Third Secretary General and Myint-U thought it would be nice to "come say hello...