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...years at Cambridge, the great don thereafter took his daily "stroll" forced-march style, a spartan, slender man of sorrowful visage with pale eyes and drooping gray mustache...
Patricia (Patti) Reagan, Reagan's first child by Nancy, is tall, slender, graceful and very shy. When an interview was scheduled, a Reagan campaign publicity aide insisted on sitting in (apparently Nancy Reagan wanted it that way). Her boarding school, the Orme School near Phoenix, was a place where students rode horses and tended cattle, but Patti also wrote poetry. "Serious poetry," she says. "I was a very serious person." Out of school, she devoted a lot of effort to writing rock songs. One of them, I Wish You Peace, was recorded by the Eagles. For the past year...
...painted an abstract picture in his life. His instinct for the real world was so strong that he probably would have produced something woman-shaped every time he took brush in hand. Nevertheless, some of his cubist still lifes of 1911 run close to total abstraction, depending on such slender clues as a glass or a pipestem to pull them back to reality. As he moved forward, he found in collage a way of linking cubism back to the world. Collage, which simply means gluing, brought fragments of modern life?newspaper headlines, printed labels?directly into the painting. Cut them...
...economically hard pressed Hartford, spirits have risen a bit this spring. Why? Consider the case of Mary Haley, a slender, brown-haired woman who wears her 41 years well. She arises early, shoos her three resident children (ages 17, 14 and ten) off to school. She orders one to remember to feed the dog, then bustles around a six-room frame house at 61 Monroe Street in a working-class area. The house is 64 years old and tax delinquent. After picking up a stray article of clothing here, dusting a table top there, Mary too is off-to work...
...BOARDROOM IS HUSHED, awed. The lines on the charts seem to have a life of their own, surging with an organic vitality, up and up. the lines are profits, big profits. And there is a woman, "a tall, slender woman dressed in a simple manner," She is Katherine Graham. This is the Washington Post...