Word: padded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...casting director, brought in dozens of actors to audition. "Bill would start to sketch a person as soon as he became bored, and Saks' face would light up when he saw the right person. I would keep an eye on Gene's face and Bill's pad to get a sense of what was going on." Finally the six were chosen: Remak Ramsay to play the stuffy lawyer and Linda Atkinson for his wife, who always had a cause like saving Grand Central Terminal from the developers; Michael Ayr as the unbusinesslike architect and Jill Eikenberry...
...first rule of politics is to be different," a veteran Brown aide remarked in 1976, when the campaign emphasized the exotic in his personality, capitalizing on people's interest in his outrageous lifestyle and philosophy. The years of misty evocations of Zen consciousness, bachelor pad living, and inviting royalty to brown-bag lunches have taken their toll, however--the image of unorthodoxy that was Brown's greatest asset in 1976 has now become his chief liability. Brown's campaign staff works furiously to dispel the conception of the governor as a "California flake...
...make all the difference. Late last week the magazine's editors were meeting to change the cover story to this week's report on growing opposition to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Hoglund, who was sitting in for vacationing Art Director Walter Bernard, began sketching on his pad even as the editors talked. Within minutes, he had drawn a cover image to accompany the story. His inspiration was the Russian bear that had loomed pictorially over Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan in a prescient cover he had designed last January for the "Crescent of Crisis." Says Hoglund: "Back then...
Project Place grew into this extended role from a drug-counselling center and crash pad in the late '60s. A group of seminarians, including some members of the Harvard Divinity School, opened up their apartment in 1967 for overnight crashing "as a response to all the young people flooding into the city," current Place director Phylis Saindons says. The stream of street people coming in upset the landlords, and the founders of Place were evicted, but the idea had already taken hold. Supported by federal grants, the seminarians relocated in the South End, a few blocks from the current location...