Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, or feared, chaos, which, from my point of view as a problem solver and question answerer, not a cashier, means lots of problems with hard answers or questions that should never have arisen; in other words, explaining, patching and apoligizing for mistakes in buying and organizing. My remark to your reporter indicated that that did not happen, and lines and crowded aisles do not contradict my statement. The managers and buyers should be praised for their work...
...apologize, according to intimates of L.B.J.'s widow. Lady Bird described herself through an aide as "hurt and perplexed." The timing could hardly have been worse. Rosalynn Carter was scheduled to make campaign appearances with Lady Bird in Texas while her husband's L.B.J. remark was still on the air and in the headlines. Though Lady Bird was cool, she met Rosalynn in San Antonio and conducted her through the Johnson Library in Austin without so much as a mention of Playboy. At week's end, during an airport press conference in Houston, Carter tried to mollify...
...only Laura knows this. She refuses to tell anyone, presumably because the evening will seem even more pointless and ghastly when the truth finally is learned. "One has to take your mother seriously, but not in the usual sense," says the publisher wisely to suffering Clara. The remark fits the book itself, a strange and exasperating display of becalmed talent by the author of Desperate Characters and Poor George, novels much praised, among other things, for their "merciless observation...
...this kind of attitude toward policy making that led one UHall administrator to remark last week that Fox appears likely to be firmer and more decisive than his predecessor, Charles P. Whitlock. Now associate dean of the Faculty, Whitlock says he thinks the College dean should become a more autonomous unit, regaining the strength the office had up until the early '50s. The more House masters and the heads of other College areas turn to the College dean, he points out, the greater the time Dean Rosovsky makes it clear he is looking for that kind of independence...
Veronique, unfortunately, takes this all in stride, as does Claudine Guilmain's directorial tyle. This brings to mind Vincent Canby's interesting remark about this film: [Guilmain], I suspect, made exactly the kind of film she set out to." I'm not so sure Canby communicates exactly what he set out to, but he would probably agree that Guilmain's straightforward and naive realization of a 13 year-old's perspective does produce some very funny moments--a ridiculous dispute in the car, Jean flopping off-balance into a garden chair--without stooping to too much cynicism. But also without...