Word: spadework
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...Spadework. There is no doubt that the volunteers-young, nimble, dedicated-gave McGovern an enormous edge in both primary and nonprimary states. In primary states, McGovern headquarters swarmed with them, boys and girls in jeans and sneakers, cranking the mimeographs, telephoning voters. In the nonprimary states, the McGovern zealots had the advantage of understanding the new reform rules and how to use them. They organized early, often stunned the regulars by their success at precinct caucuses and state conventions. In Iowa, for example, McGovern's brilliant young aides Rick Stearns and Gene Pokorny crisscrossed the state...
...Chicago Sun-Times will have regular staffers do the spadework, but is also sending Novelist Irving Wallace with a mandate that is typical for such high-priced talent. "He can write about anything he wants to," says Editorial Director Emmett Dedmon of the parent Field Enterprises, Inc., "and he probably will...
...hardhats digging up the earth next to Washington's National Gallery of Art last week were Chief Justice Warren Burger and Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who is giving the Government a new $45 million annex to the gallery. Burger's ceremonial spadework was the more convincing-perhaps because of his youthful days as a day laborer working on the Robert Street bridge, which spans the Mississippi. That job also helped develop his judicial prudence. The contractor, he recalls, told him to use three bags less cement in the concrete when the inspectors were not looking. "I used the full...
...took considerable diplomatic spadework to buy even that much time. Arabs worry that the longer Israel occupies the conquered territories, the firmer its hold over them will become. But rather than negotiate a peace themselves that would undoubtedly require concessions from both sides, the Arabs have been hoping that the U.N. and the Big Four powers would force the Israelis to give up the territories. Sadat, who is not yet strong enough to make the sort of concessions that his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, might have gotten away with, talked tough up to the last minute. Repeatedly, he threatened...
...spadework has been ruthless, the disinterment squads never tire. One might think that all the minor figures of early 20th century art had by now been exhumed and dusted off, and that no reputations were left to be polished. Not quite true. A case in point is that of Alfred Kubin (1877-1959), some of whose drawings are presently on show at the Serge Sabarsky Gallery in New York. For years, Kubin was regarded as a mere footnote to Austrian Expressionism-a man whose chief importance was vicarious, having influenced the young Paul Klee and provided enough indicative puffs...