Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...futile effort to keep the U.S. from cutting off secret arms aid, Kurdish General Mustafa Barzani gave three valuable Oriental rugs and a gold and pearl necklace to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Wife Nancy when they were married in 1974. Brent Scowcroft, the President's national security adviser, said that actually one rug and one necklace had been received and both had been promptly turned over to the White House, as required...
...study anthropology at the University of Illinois-but not before turning Trudeau on to feminism. Last summer Garry donated close to 125 Doonesbury originals to raise funds for the National Women's Political Caucus. His greatest contribution remains Joanie Caucus, whose commitment to feminism resembles that of Mary Pearl, who is married to Charles Pillsbury. Joanie now has an identity that transcends the strip. She entered Berkeley law school after students at the university sent Trudeau an application in her name. "I've received so much mail addressed to Joanie," complains her inventor, "that my mother thinks...
...linger. The final impression is that the show belongs to the flagellant school of contemporary American selfcriticism. Whether he means to or not, Prince seems to be arguing that the U.S. opened up Japan by force, sowing the wind of brutalizing social change and thus reaping the whirlwind of Pearl Harbor and global commercial competition...
...manageable. The 1975 forecasts, however, sounded alarmingly convincing. Last July, President Ford himself warned that plant shutdowns caused by gas shortages "will mean substantially less jobs" during the winter of 1975-76 and "could interfere with economic recovery," while a gas-company official spoke of "the industry's Pearl Harbor." From there the script got more familiar: as the heating season approached, the warnings were toned down until, in the closing days of the year, Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb predicted that the shortage once more would cause only inconvenience, not disaster...
...roles with scapular authority, one fears for Kevin Conway even as one scrutinizes him. But he is up to his hazardous task. As an actor, he is not a flashy water-skier splashing off extraneous effects but a deep-sea diver of strenuous gravity who comes up with the pearl of truth...