Word: pallid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Ehninger, most of the other male characters in the book are pallid. It is the women who are vivid and demonstrate by far the sharpest appetites. Beeky's wife, for example, is a ribald triple divorcee, an exploded sex bomb 15 years older than her husband. A menopausal female member of the firm demonstrates maternal ambitions by deviously trying to get a young lawyer to marry her daughter. Another woman solicitor, young and brilliant, undergoes great turmoil when she leaves Shepard, Putney, etc., where her husband is also a lawyer, in order to head for Washington...
...efforts, the gritty good humor of President Nixon at his 61st birthday party was belied by his appearance. His complexion was pallid, and he looked haggard and weary. Clearly, the two weeks already spent in San Clemente had not, as hoped, begun to refresh his spirits or restore his vigor. The evidence of the President's weariness came as a particular jolt to some of his staffers: they literally had not seen him since his arrival...
...Storm, his ninth novel, the panel also showed a sentiment in favor of the "old-fashioned" novel-that is, a carefully crafted fictional edifice with a full complement of realistic detail and psychological probing. His newest book certainly has alj, that, but it is a pallid creation that often makes the reader wish -respectfully but vehemently-that the storm would blow every bit of it away...
MOST BALLYHOOED FIZZLE: ex-Washington Post Reporter Sally Quinn in CBS's pallid Morning News...
...Grimm illustrations brought Rackham, who died in 1939, his first great success. But he went on to do nearly everything from Scrooge to Cinderella, from The Sleeping Beauty to The Wind in the Willows. Rackham's gnarled giants, dark woods and pallid, feathery Edwardian maidens still compel-and the price of this new edition is commendably...