Word: remarkable
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...subject tried to be gracious. It is "a remarkable example of modern art," pronounced Sir Winston Churchill at the unveiling in Westminster Hall in 1954 of his 80th birthday present, a portrait commissioned by Parliament and painted by the famed English neoromanticist Graham Sutherland. But his remark was tongue in cheek, and the audience roared. Winnie thought the portrait, which had a gloomy, resigned-to-age air about it, made him look "half-witted, which I ain't." His dutiful wife Clementine put it out of sight in the basement and promised her husband that it would never...
...inspection-at least until the U.S. and U.S.S.R. start reducing their own nuclear stockpiles. Carter agreed to sell India the heavy water and uranium that it needs for its nuclear reactors. Whether a sharp letter from Secretary of State Vance will follow is now uncertain because of the overheard remark. Asked what he would do if he received such a letter, Desai said diplomatically, "I would not regard it as cold or blunt...
...advised interference in the filibuster designed to block efforts to raise the ceiling on natural gas prices--an effort the administration also opposed. That this bickering and confusion have caused the administration to lose faith in its ability to work with a feisty Congress was shown in a remark by energy chief James R. Schlesinger '50 to the effect that the administration would be willing to compromise still further by giving increased tax credits to industries that convert to coal, returning a larger portion of revenues from the proposed energy tax to the oil industry, and allowing regulated natural...
...more appropriately attached to a Campbell's soup can than I am to Marilyn Monroe. You don't look at me as the world's greatest sex symbol," reflects Cincinnati Reds Pitcher Tom Seaver. His remark was à propos of his new portrait by Andy Warhol, who, of course, has also immortalized both soup cans and Monroe. Seaver's likeness, done in acrylic and silk screen on canvas, is part of Warhol's new series, which also includes Muhammad Ali, Dorothy Hamill, Chris Evert and Jack Nicklaus. Why Warhol's current interest in athletes...
...stands on the treaty, described the understanding as "a very important diplomatic achievement and a big plus for the President and the treaty." Republican Senator Robert Dole, one of the pact's chief critics, called the joint statement a "step in the right direction," his most favorable remark to date...