Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President of the U.S. except Lincoln (in retrospect, now to be considered another impeachable character) has ever been more savaged by the press than Nixon. For one solid year the press has been beating on him mercilessly. And he has shown that he can take it and take it and take it, with cool and courage. But few journalists-none on TIME-have had even the sportsmanship, no less the journalistic objectivity, to report that whatever Nixon is or is not, he is one helluva gutsy fighter...
Originally created by British commercial television, the series brings the household serving staff in from the cold periphery of drama to its center. All the episodes are self-contained, but there is a solid cotton thread tying them together, namely Rose, the head houseparlor-maid, played by Jean Marsh-who is also one of the show's co-creators...
...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. Objects were sunk in a twinkling field of vectors and shadows, solid lapping into transparency, things penetrating and turning away, leaving behind the merest signs for themselves-a letter or two, the bowl of a pipe, the sound hole of a guitar. This sense of multiple relationships was the core of cubism's modernity. It declared that all visual experience could...
...Crimson boasts seven upperclassman returning from last year's squad. In additional to Boyum, Jackson and Brog, Jim Lubowitz, Peter Dinoen, Mike Mack and David Segal are expected to form a solid nucleus for the coming season. Last year's national collegiate champ, Kenton Jernigan (older brother of Kevin), is taking the first semester...
Scott Carpenter, 58, moved on from the Mercury program to become an "aquanaut" in the Navy's Sealab program. Since then he has pursued various oceanographic ventures but admits to having "difficulty finding a good, solid third career." Today he lives in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles and works part-time giving speeches and consulting. He and his second wife, Maria Roach, 36, have two young sons, and Carpenter describes himself as mainly a "father-in-residence...