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Ford sipped his iced tea. The afternoon light began to fade across the south lawn. He had had his ups and downs over the last week. He was a bit more tired than usual, just a shade more subdued. But he was still a believer. "I'm an optimist," he said. "It's a great thrill being President... Betty and I are well adjusted [to White House life]; the children have gotten along well; I think it has brought our family closer together. Our children have matured very well in the White House. It's been helpful...
Still, at his best McCartney writes words and music with the sort of unruffled brilliance and canny razzle-dazzle that can put both Sedaka and songs like Listen to What the Man Said straight in the shade. Take this example from Band...
Soll juxtaposes incongruous images, a waltz and an hours-long fall or love-making and a corpse-like pose. She warps time and space, creates endless moments and an unidentifiable yet distinct place--I felt as if I must have seen the dance sometime before. This ability to shade time and space with felt qualities is what's meant by an intuition for choreography...
...Kodak's dipped, a classic case of buying on the rumor and selling on the news. Analysts expect the new instant line to add only a few percentage points to Kodak's profits, which come from chemicals and textiles as well as photography. Many analysts were a shade disappointed in the new cameras. They had expected something dramatically different from the company that developed the first successful color film for amateurs (Kodachrome, in 1935) and has sold 75 million Instamatics since the introduction of that phenomenally successful line in 1963. Said one Wall Streeter: "It was strictly...
...final margin for the Crimson was a shade of open water over Dartmouth as the varsity eight crossed the finish line with a fine 6:09,5 clocking...