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Harry Lipson of Folktree Concerts said, "We think Sanders is one of the nicest theaters in the country." The reasons he named for Sanders' selection were, "the wood, the stained glass, the large stage, and the fabulous acoustics. The place just has a great feeling to it," he said...
...Bush was a one-man cleanup squad for the Republicans, the nicest man to send into the nastiest situations, and the CIA, after the Church committee's investigation, was as battered and demoralized an area as the R.N.C. had recently been. Bush, kept in the dark in earlier jobs, was sent to be the restorer of light and order at the CIA, which he largely became. Heavy firings under James Schlesinger and candid revelations to Congress under William Colby had made the agency defensive, and Bush has always been a good restorer of team morale. He spoke more often...
...Bunshaft and Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer. This week in Chicago the two unrepentant old modernists will share the tenth annual Pritzker Architecture Prize. The Pritzker is by far the field's most prestigious award and, with its $100,000 honorarium, the most generous. The tribute, says Bunshaft, "is the nicest thing that ever happened...
Along Pennsylvania Avenue, a powerful sympathizer muses that "Ed Meese is one of the nicest people I ever met. He is decent, hardworking, trying to help people all the time. But he does some dumb things. I hope when the report comes out the President puts his arm around Ed and says, 'This vindicates Ed. Now he's tired and wants out. I agree...
Scandal was the sea in which Capote swam. Clarke quotes Capote's story, for instance, of his not-very-electric sexual fling with Errol Flynn, and of a tender interlude with John Garfield ("one of the nicest people I've ever known. My mother saw him just once and tried to get him into bed with her"). Capote used such shockers to draw corresponding admissions from subjects he interviewed. Clarke's breezy and sympathetic account inevitably teems with them and is sure to keep tongues wagging busily through the summer...