Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows where it will all end. In Southern California, four-year-old Derek Bland gives expert demonstrations on his 50-cc. Honda. Wearing his silver crash helmet and silver boots, he takes off down his driveway at 12 m.p.h., leans, sticks out a foot expertly to whip his bike around and roars back to his starting point. "I'm too good at this," he says. "You should see me go over a jump. I can do wheelies too." Derek started out on a mini-minibike called the Indian, but quickly became bored. For one thing, it could...
...death; of liver disease; in Mexico City. One of the first and most forceful of the Latin American leftist nationalists, Crdenas enraged Britain and the U.S. in 1938 by expropriating $450 million worth of oil holdings owned by foreign concerns. When the U.S. retaliated by cutting off silver purchases, Crdenas agreed to pay some compensation, but continued to seize land owned by Americans. Eventually, Crdenas redistributed more than 40 million acres to Mexico's peasants...
...fall Sunday evening and only a few artists remain, straggling under spotlighted trees across the shaven lawns of Philip Johnson's 32-acre New Canaan precinct. All the millionaires and collectors have gone home. Andy Warhol, in black jacket and silver wig, looking like the Angel of Death quitting Jerusalem, left ten minutes ago. Robert Rauschenberg lingers on, and though a lady art critic is locked in Johnson's subterranean painting gallery with a young artist who is slapping her around for undetermined reasons, the place is quiet. Above the Morrises, Judds and Oldenbergs, lights still burn...
...months of stewardship, the President has grown some deeper crevices around his eyes and his hair is a shade more silver. Those who watched Nixon during this time found him calm and confident, still with that element of cunning that has always been part...
...over again, I wouldn't," said Joan Kennedy last year after she had earned a disapproving look from Pat Nixon by wearing a silver minidress to an evening White House reception. To demonstrate that she had learned her lesson well, Joan showed up last week at a White House luncheon for Mrs. Ferdinand Marcos, wife of Philippines President, in an unobtrusive little number: a silver leather Cardin midi with black lace-up boots and a stretch lace see-through blouse...