Word: referred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think of nothing I'd like less than having other females, with no medical experience, practice do-it-yourself gynecology on me. What happens after their diagnosis and treatment are wrong? I suppose they will refer the patient to a licensed gynecologist-like my husband-to repair the damage. (MRS.) PATRICIA JARVAIS GEARY Middletown...
...elect an armadillo? First, you always refer to him as "The President." It helps if you send him off to China to give him a little glamour, so that people will say, "He may be an armadillo, but look at what he's managed to do." But most important, you never apologize for anything, and you assume that since most voters secretly believe that they are dull, they will welcome a candidate who is dull and proud...
...called illicit romances. I simply go in and ask him about them and that's all." On rumors about Ted and Amanda Burden: "Pure nonsense. Of course I know Amanda. Not intimately, but we've met at parties." On sympathizers: "I am fed up with people who refer to me as poor Joan...
Elegance. For Korin used traditional motifs: the S curve of the river, for instance, and its stylized scrolls of water, refer back to 16th century Momoyama screens. Yet he infused these motifs with a new, tense elegance. The line of the white plum branch, dipping down and then shooting up off the top of the screen, is electric. The river, boldly placed to unify the two separate screens, swirls with energy. Indeed, later artists bestowed his name on this way of painting water. "Korin waves" recur in a long screen of gray cranes by Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858). A copy...
...performances. On one hand there is his love of Woody Guthrie. "He taught me so many things I didn't know," he says of Woody. "After all, I had gone to private schools all my life." Seeger likes to sing Woody's songs about working people, and loves to refer to Woody, and also to Leadbelly (whom he always calls "Huddie Leadbeller"). He often makes reference to the common people--the old Southern mammy, the railroad worker in the empty railway station--from whom he picked up this song or that...