Word: realistes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wooed the delegates in Kansas City. A wealthy Houston lawyer, he did not become a Republican until 1970 and had no national political experience until the primary fight. He is a cool, low-keyed operator with a talent for getting the biggest bang out of his bucks?"a C.P.A.-realist type," in the admiring phrase of Republican Senator Howard Baker (no kin). Jim Baker will work closely with Political Director Stuart Spencer and White House Chief of Staff Richard B. Cheney...
...designer of the costumes and scenery, Pop Artist Robert Indiana turned out to be the key person in the production. Thomson admired an earlier version that presented Mother as an animated album with quaint figures suggesting tinted photographs. Realist Indiana had other ideas. Incorporating Pop art's hard-edge feeling into the production, he splashed the stage with circus colors of red, gold, green and blue...
...today, with the revival of interest in realist painting, the swing has gone the other way, and recently the U.S. Government gave it a vigorous push. In early 1974 the Department of the Interior approached some 45 artists with the suggestion that they go on location throughout America and paint what they saw, provided that what they looked at fell under the department's jurisdiction: mountains and swamps, plains, beaches, dams, railroads, national parks, sawmills, highways. California's Joseph Raffael went to Hawaii and came back with large paintings of water lilies; New York City's best...
...victory with heavy union and political-machine support. At week's end he decided to drop out of the race. "I will remain a candidate and I do not intend to endorse any other candidate at this time," said Scoop to a group of supporters. "I am a realist. Simply stated, we are out of money." Asked to assess Carter's chances for the nomination, Jackson declared frankly: "He is an open-field runner at this time...
...Greatest is more than a sports book. Boxing fans will love it because it does say a lot about boxing and boxers, but it goes far beyond that. Ali's realist and he knows himself, and that sometime he will be finally defeated. Ali quotes Archie Moore (George Foreman's trainer) as saying, "Your time is coming. Your day will come...