Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Auto Safety contends that one of the scuttled rules-a requirement that new cars have a dashboard gauge warning drivers of low tire pressure-would have saved at least $300 in better gas mileage from properly inflated tires. Claybrook, who has now resumed duties as an aide to Ralph Nader, charges that "NHTSA has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Detroit manufacturers...
...Ralph Lauren, whose Southwest look a few seasons ago sparked interest in prairie skirts and cowboy shirts, is now touting a nautical line designed to make lifelong landlubbers look as if they belonged on a yacht. The centerpiece: a navy serge officer's jacket, complete with braided gold trim and shiny brass buttons...
...Bass player. Various accounts origin of nickname: ceaseless buzzing energy; onetime habit of wearing black-and-yellow striped sweaters. Discovered by Copeland playing a gig with "a couple of old jazzers" in a school classroom. Getting divorced (see Every Breath You Take); likes to talk matters intellectual. Favorite music: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony...
...theatrical restaurant in London's West End, he is none of those things, however. He is instead the Gielgud his friends say they see, the irrepressible Mr. Chat, full of observations, anecdotes and gossip. "You needn't say a word when you're with him," says Ralph Richardson, a close friend for 53 years. "Sometimes I will say yes or no or really? Afterward he will tell someone, 'I had a wonderful talk with Ralph.' And I didn't say anything! He's a continual firework of words...
...Composer Ralph Shapey: $288,000 in 1982. "The big difference is psychological," says Shapey, a professor of music at the University of Chicago. "You just aren't worried about money, you don't think about money any more." Shapey continues to compose in his unprepossessing apartment in Chicago's Hyde Park, still does not own a car, and busies himself, as he did before receiving the award, with creating difficult music in a modern idiom that some critics have hailed as "expressive" and "romantic" despite its atonal complexity. Commercial publishers have issued only a handful...