Word: performancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gergen, who joined the Nixon White House in 1971, was brought in to improve coordination among Administration spokesmen. He will also continue to perform a delicate but important role-helping to sharpen the President's public statements. Ford, an uninspiring orator, has generally depended for his texts on his old friend and former congressional assistant, Robert Hartmann, Counsellor to the President and his chief speechwriter. Some critics have found Hartmann's drafts to be thin and full of platitudes. Gergen is expected to upgrade presidential pronouncements, though he will still not have direct authority over Hartmann...
...Finally, Muktananda proclaimed (in Mindi, a Hindi dialect), "Now is the auspicious hour of the auspicious day. The sun and moon are strong." That heralded the main event: the marriage of 16 couples, the women in saris, with garlands of flowers. The guru, who is licensed to perform weddings as a minister in an ordination mill called the Universal Life Church, blessed the rings and said, "May you live together in love...
...Moynihan made no exploration of the future that the left envisions, a world in which men and women are not channeled to perform certain narrow, stereotypical roles, a world in which the natural environment is treated with respect, a world in which resources are allocated according to the principles of equality and justice. These may be naive dreams, but many people are quietly shaping their lives around them, disdaining standard goals to concentrate on changing their own values and those of individuals around them. But Moynihan can see only the scion of an upper-class family screaming through a bullhorn...
...There are other parallels between the accelerator that Pipkin worked with and the planned facility his committee now favors. Despite the potential hazards of the research--particularly the danger that the bacteria, once transplanted with foreign DNA, could induce disease and death in humans--the scientists want to perform the experiments in the Biological Laboratories, at 16 Divinity Ave., in a residential area. And, as was the case with the electron accelerator, the public has not participated in early decisions about recombinant DNA work that may later affect...
...marrying Sandra Campbell, 29, a former nightclub camera girl and a 1971 aspirant to Miss Nevada honors. The wedding, featuring the pair in early-American nuptial garb, will be held between shows at the Kings Island entertainment center in Ohio, where Paul Revere (his real name) will be performing. The couple met five years ago on July 4, and "that's why we chose the date for our wedding," claims the groom-to-be. Wait, there's more: officiating at the ceremony will be the Rev. Gene Skipworth of Cincinnati, who will perform the honors dressed...