Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intellectual leader of the young economists is Harvard's Feldstein, a soft-spoken family man from The Bronx, whose looks and middle-class background and mannerisms call to mind a benign dentist. While most of his peers remain academically cloistered, concentrating on the higher mathematics and econometric concepts of modern research, Feldstein is at home in both academe and Government. He is equally comfortable pondering a regression equation for a computer program or testifying to a congressional committee, which he often does. Both political parties eagerly seek his counsel. He was an adviser to Jimmy Carter's '76 campaign, turned...
...down, theys was workin' all the time . . . Just keep goin'. If you didn't work, they'd ship you right out of there. They don't need ya. They can always get somebody else." The gritty, childish voice holds the film together. Originally, the narration was to have been spoken by Brooke Adams, the older actress who plays Gere's lover. But Days of Heaven came to be Linda's film...
...happened in a minute, and not a word was spoken. As Jimmy Carter prepared to leave a high-thermostatted White House reception shortly after his Cabinet shakeup, his shoulders slumped, his tired head bowed. Instantly, Rosalynn Carter's hand reached out, possessively supporting his back, and her steely eyes glared out at the watching guests like those of a guardian lioness. Then they walked out together...
...club." Last January he outmaneuvered three senior Representatives to win the chairmanship of the powerful Subcommittee on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources. A second-generation American with Lebanese grandparents, Moffett, who studied government at Syracuse University and Boston College, is a longtime defender of consumer rights. He has spoken out against high energy costs and opposes President Carter's decontrol of domestic oil prices, despite arguments from those who feel that Americans will waste gasoline until prices go up. "Government programs are still wanted," he says. "My job is to cut out the waste and the junk...
Despite the drawbacks, 12,000 of the 17,000 tour places allotted to Americans have already been spoken for. (All travel and ticket arrangements are being handled by the Russian Travel Bureau, an American-owned firm in New York.) The tour prices-$1,550 for 15 days, $1,850 for 22 days-include most meals, sightseeing entertainment and "first class" accommodations, which are far less opulent than their typical Western equivalents. Tickets to Olympic events, which cost anywhere from $3 to $38, are extra...