Word: paul
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...accuser in this case is another Illinois Republican, Rep. Paul Findley, who has just written a book about Lincoln's years in Congress. He discovered the details of Lincoln's padded expense account in muckraking stories written at the time by Horace ("Go West, young man!") Greeley of the New York Tribune. Findley is less than outraged by Honest Abe's exaggerations. He points out that the future President only earned $4 a day for his service in the House...
Harvard economists contacted yesterday said the appointment of Paul A. Volcker to head the Federal Reserve Board would lead to a more conservative U.S. monetary policy...
...TIME GOES ON, the questions that everyone asked as jokes a decade ago are becoming less and less moot. What will Paul McCartney be doing at 50? Touring the Catskills with Wings, maybe making guest appearances at Grossinger's. How will the generation of rockers that entered the field in the mid-sixties meet the twentieth anniversary of their debuts? Nature has solved the problem for many of them in a swift and clean way, of course, but for those who remain alive, existential crises are on the way. If these albums any indication, it will be a long, painfully...
Andrew Borowitz seems admirably suited for the part of Rodrigo, the circus acrobat turned informer, although at times his lines are inaudible; Maura Moynihan is uncannily boyish as his male sidekick. One of the best cameos is Paul Redford's chilling portrayal of Jack. He is authentically sinister in a horrifying last scene...
...celebrate the 86th birthday of Europe's greatest living painter, some 300 examples of Joan Miro's last quarter-century of work were rounded up for a unique display at Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera. The ultimate objetamid the sculpture, paintings and stained glass: the artist himself, in a rare public appearance. Physically Miro showed the shadings of age; artistically, however, he sounded positively primal. "I have a whole infinity of projects in mind," he promised the gathering of international well-wishers. "I am simply waiting for an opportunity to realize them...