Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spokesman, Paul Nitze, Deputy Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson and a SALT negotiator under Nixon, has an intimidating expertise on defense matters, and has been stumping the country expressing his reservations about SALT II. A cool, persuasive debater, he argues that the pact that seems to be taking shape would leave U.S. land missiles vulnerable to a Soviet first strike...
...could fall any hour, yet Carter has found no course but to continue supporting him, at least publicly. The fall of the Shah, which many now predict, would change the equations of power, from Egypt and Ethiopia all the way east to Pakistan. The helplessness of the U.S. to shape events in Iran is beginning to sap Saudi Arabia's confidence in the ability of the U.S. to protect the region from Soviet penetration, a hazard that some American officials fear is every bit as threatening as the Soviet thrust into Europe of the late 1940s and early 1950s...
...well this winter). Better yet, a Fendi sable coat (Bergdorf's catalogue sold three at $18,500 apiece), a $500 cashmere robe or any ornament made of gold, the invaluable metal that fetched some $220 an ounce on the London market last week. Tiny gold pendants in the shape of oil barrels went for $850 and solid gold nuggets for $950. Tiffany's diamond-studded gold watch was a bargain. Its price...
...that the '70s, having started late, have not been going on long enough to give clear shape to whatever they are finally to be. At first, they could scarcely be recognized except by what they were not. Mainly, they were not the '60s. To an exhausted, convalescent society this was a relief but also disconcerting. It was not easy, even with Jerry Ford in the White House, to begin watching for pratfalls instead of apocalypses. Still, by the time Jimmy Carter tried to whip up a moral crusade for energy conservation, much of the country seemed to have...
David Levine is the best-known political and literary caricaturist since Max Beerbohm. His cartoon of Lyndon Johnson's gall bladder scar in the shape of Viet Nam is a classic, and it is impossible to see a picture of Kafka, Mailer or Proust without remembering the artist's caustic lines. But there is another, gentler Levine: a water-colorist of enormous delicacy and control. The Arts of David Levine (Knopf; 205 pages; $25) celebrates both with generous samples of serious portraiture, beach scenes and parodic sketches that recall the nervous poignance of Daumier and fully justify John...