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...choice of Senate Republicans. If Dole might be too assertive as majority leader, the low-key Lugar could be too deferential. Elected to the Senate in 1976, he is a relative newcomer. It seems apropos that Stevens, a 14-year veteran, is majority whip: his opinions tend to be plain and angrily expressed. "I've got a temper," he confesses, "and I know how to use it!" The New Right would pick McClure, a Senator since 1973, who shares their ultraconservatism but not their uncompromising manner. Domenici, re-elected to his third Senate term, is fair-minded and sincere...
...before. Last summer two North Dakota towns, Williston and Grand Forks, threw parades for Hill, 20. Nobody is fighting over him now. "I'm training out of L.A., without a manager yet," he explained in a dim dressing room, though the comparative worth of gold and silver was plain to see. Just as Hill was saying, "My medal is priceless," that haunting Olympic bugling sounded out by the ring, announcing Junior Lightweight Meldrick Taylor...
...horse was his chief image of social harmony: order on four legs. No wonder that, in such paintings as Eclipse at Newmarket, With a Groom and a Jockey, circa 1770, the plain rubbing-down houses on Newmarket Heath look like neo-Egyptian shrines, pyramids of the turf. They are, so to speak, the temples of Stubbs' Utopia, a place adjacent to Jonathan Swift's imaginary country of the Houyhnhnms, those sagacious and moralizing horses...
...utility was the point: half a dozen or more could be stacked up for storage. A stacking armchair designed in 1929, its rear legs, back rail and arms a single piece of bent wood, is swanker, a kind of streamlined Thonet. Yet despite the curvature, it is still a plain old chair, a clunky seat stuck onto four legs-a goat just beginning, it appears, to turn into a gazelle...
...using tubular steel in the '20s. The cantilever is springy, like an athlete's crouch. Indeed, Aalto's cantilevered chairs have a cheerfully anthropomorphic profile. His most splendid variations on the theme also seem the most characteristically Scandinavian: after he had tried seats and backs of plain plywood and boxy upholstery, Aalto designed birch frames crisscrossed with black linen webbing. The effect is at once urbane and countrified, not unlike the designer himself...