Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grander and a variety of gimmicks was planned. Ten Stooges shorts ("all Curly!" the posters boasted, and it seemed clear that this was designed to attract the true aficionados who wouldn't hear of stooping to Shemp, or Curly Joe, or the unmentionable Just Plain Joe, who eternally smudged the dynasty of the Third Stooge by daring to turn Curly's inimitable mannerism into a parody of fagdom), plays a lecture by Cantor and, what promised to be the show of all shows--a talk by Professor Martin Kilson. And a fifty dollar essay contest on "Why I Like...
...just one of these occasions, late in February, that the letter came. It was on cream-colored stationery--quite thick and impressive looking--with "The White House" embossed in small, plain letters on the flap. Walter had received no mail in the past three months, except a foreclosure notice from his bank and a curt note from the finance company telling him his 1959 Chevy had been repossessed. Walter was, needless to say, excited. He carefully ripped off the end of the envelope, pulled out the letter and read...
...prospect of a conservative third party's fracturing what is left of the post-Watergate G.O.P. horrifies regular Republicans, as speaker after speaker made plain at a gathering of 2,700 state and local party leaders in Washington last week. It began with the bad news that the party's own survey shows only 7% of voters now regard themselves as strong Republicans and only 18% as Republicans at all: 42% of Americans say they are Democrats, and 40% independents. President Ford warned against "fanatic factions" and "elite guards" who would threaten the rebuilding of the party...
There are some commendable small corrections and additions here. Safire reveals that Nixon impulsively wrote a wholly unpublicized and touching note to the son of Senator Tom Eagleton, praising the father's "poise and just plain guts" when McGovern dropped him as a vice-presidential candidate. Despite the book's length, Safire's sprightly style keeps the story moving. The man who fed Spiro Agnew such alliterations as "nattering nabobs of negativism" strains to avoid cliches, and the struggle is often entertaining...
Faulty Physiology. Doctors generally find fault with Ronsard's physiology. What the author calls cellulite is plain ordinary fat and certainly not toxic wastes, says Physiologist Marci Greenwood, a research associate at Columbia University's Institute of Human Nutrition. The dimpling effect, says Greenwood, often is caused by the loss of skin elasticity that occurs with aging. Nor is there any way to get rid of the dimpling. Exercise and proper diet may improve skin and muscle tone and make this excess adipose tissue less obvious, but it will not make it go away. Says Greenwood: "Body type...