Word: placidness
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...Conservatives do have one thing in common. Both like to be photographed in yachting hats at the helm of a boat. Ocean-Racer Heath, however, need fear no competition from Thatcher, who last week on holiday was content to be aboard the twin-engine Melita on the placid canals of Brittany. "It really is so important to keep a boat tidy," counseled the Tories' First Lady. "Any housewife will tell you, the smaller the space, the more important it is to have everything in its place." Even so, might there be time between chores to catch Prime Minister Harold...
...rivalry keeps industry prices and profit margins so low (3.8% of sales for Anheuser-Busch) that only the best-managed companies can survive. As a result, the five have increased their share of total barrelage from 55.5% in 1972 to 63.6% last year. But life is not altogether placid for them either; they are locked in a fierce battle for sales and profit supremacy that has some mercurial ups and downs...
...left wing of his own party in the referendum on staying in the European Common Market, Wilson had just set out to establish a new voluntary agreement on national pay and price guidelines between the unions and the government. Munching fresh strawberries at the Royal Agricultural Show in placid Warwickshire early last week, Wilson confidently declared: "We reject panic solutions...
Independent Souls. A compelling reason for canoeing's surge is its convenience. From the Youghiogheny to the Willamette, from white-water torrents to scenic waterways as placid as a bowl of vichyssoise, the U.S. is blessed with hundreds of thousands of inviting streams; Illinois alone boasts 6,500 miles of canoeable water. (Oldtimers say, "If the grass is wet, you can get a canoe through.") Canoes are simple to carry atop a car and easy to tote ("portage") around a rapids. A standard aluminum model costs $300 or less; in many areas, "the poor man's yacht...
...from a Marriage in its dissection of a couple's relationship. Visual snatches of Paul caressing Adriana's leg or putting his hand under her shirt serve to force his character into a one-dimensional world of male physicality and insensitivity. The periodic eruption of a train into the placid Swiss countryside relentlessly hammers us with its tiresome commentary on Paul's mentality; rational, utilitarian, compartmentalized. Adriana is the classic female--equal shares of mysterious introspection, intuitive insight and the constant assertion of the spiritual over the physical. As she is about to make love with Paul for the first...