Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both have publishers expecting manuscripts. Why children's books? "I think it's a boomer thing--a group of people recapturing their youth," says Wasserstein, whose book is about a girl's first theater visit. Plus, they're easier than autobiographies, although the inspiration for most of them is plain. Lake's book is about a fat girl; Burton's is about a boy who pretends to be Vincent Price; and Williamson's title is Emma & Mommy Talk to God. Let's hope Keillor's book isn't too autobiographical. It's about a man who likes really smelly cheese...
...department, Kaczynski seems to have lost his way. Again the radical politics of the antiwar movement were "in your face," recalls Robert Wold, 45, a Berkeley graduate from those years. "You had to choose. You were either part of it or you were against it." Again Ted hid in plain sight--no friends, no allies, no networking. When he suddenly resigned after teaching for two years, the department chair, John W. Addison Jr., tried and failed to talk him into staying. Not that dropping out was such a surprising move in that era. "It was not uncommon," recalls Addison...
...work of sufficient power and mystery to have opened up some new lines of feeling in 20th century photography, above all a kind of dry-eyed romanticism, subdued but haunting. In his matter-of-fact pictures of his naked wife or in his radiant seascapes, the world is both plain and pregnant with hidden meaning. Everything is seen through the filter of his yearning for understandings that are always just out of reach. The Callahan retrospective that continues through May 19 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, then moves to Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit and Chicago, makes one thing...
...elected to the Presidency, there will be a lot less noise on the council. And there will be a lot more straight talk, plain dealing, and hard work...
DIED. EDMUND MUSKIE, 81, erstwhile Democratic Governor, Senator and Secretary of State; in Washington. His rangy physique and reputation for plain dealing bestowed upon the son of a Polish immigrant the life-long label "Lincolnesque." The image propelled Muskie to two terms in the Maine statehouse and 21 years in the U.S. Senate. There, his environmental concerns earned Muskie the nickname "Mr. Clean," part of a low-key liberalism that landed him the vice-presidential slot on the Democrats' failed 1968 ticket. But the presidential nomination eluded Muskie four years later. In the New Hampshire primary, he was the front...