Word: style
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he was President, the idyllic 26-acre retreat on the Pacific bustled as the Western White House. After he fell from power, it provided an elegant refuge. But Richard Nixon is moving out of his San Clemente estate. Inflation has pushed the upkeep of the twelve-room, Spanish-style villa beyond his pocketbook, and last week he sold it to a group of Orange County businessmen for an undisclosed...
...other delicacy from the sea seems to excite American palates as much as Homarus americanus, more familiarly known as the lobster. Americans consumed some 50 million lbs. last year, and recent OPEC-style price increases in the retail cost of lobsters (up 145% per Ib. since 1969) have not curbed the U.S. appetite for the clawed crustaceans. By 1985 the National Marine Fisheries Service projects nearly a doubling of demand, to about 90 million lbs. But where will these lobsters come from...
...President, can you tell us what you have done with Chester Bowles? ... A. The State Department is looking into this matter and we are expecting a report"). The attempt worked, partly because it shocked people; it was still a bit daring in 1962 to laugh at the Kennedy style. He wrote the column in its first years from Washington and had a splendid time unstuffing shirts, though he deadpans now: "It's depressing to read a politician's memoirs and realize how little you got right." But by the end of 1974 the stake had been hammered through Richard Nixon...
Play doctors are a special breed. They must adapt their craft to another's style...
...longtime resident of the Wiltshire countryside, he has developed slowly, outside the avenues of musical fashion, building an angular, passionate and original style that freely jumbles, say, madrigals, blues, jagged contemporary dissonances and echoes of Schubert...