Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican side. Minority Whip Robert Griffin of Michigan, 53, seems to be far ahead of any rivals for the job of minority leader, his party's top Senate post. Tireless and even-tempered, he suffers from a lackluster speaking style. If successful, Griffin would become the G.O.P.'s highest elected officeholder and, like the party's national chairman, an important articulator of Republican policy. As it happens, the present G.O.P. chairman, Mary Louise Smith, an Iowa housewife, announced last week that she would resign. That sets the stage for a battle royal between conservatives and moderates...
...President's style, though, contrasts sharply with that of his dour, ponderously rhetorical predecessor. Tall, barrel-chested and robustly athletic, López Portillo flashes ear-to-ear grins and laces his refreshingly brief speeches with humor. His inaugural address will probably be the longest oration of his life. He enjoys soccer or boxing as much as talk of public administration, economics or Mexican mythology. His writings include studies of both legal theory and Mexico's legendary god-king Quetzalcoatl...
...prosaic style of astronomical catalogues, it is known simply as M87. But there is nothing simple about the giant galaxy. Some 30 million light-years from earth and about 100 times the diameter of the sun's own Milky Way galaxy, M87 is a great spherical island of billions of stars apparently in the midst of a tremendous upheaval. Photographs of M87 taken through the 200-in. telescope atop California's Palomar Mountain seem to show (top) that the galaxy is shooting into space an enormous jet of material, equal to the mass of countless suns...
...game. Played on a four-wall court 20 ft. wide, 40 ft. long and 20 ft. high, the 2½-in. ball must be returned to the front wall before it bounces twice. Floor, ceiling* and walls are fair play for the whooshing sphere; the ultimate shot-the handball-style "kill" -is a ball aimed at the right angle of front wall and floor, a shot that virtually rolls away...
...BROUHAHA and hubbub once raised against corporate control of American life has pretty well died down since radicalism went out of style. But the movement against the corporate ethic of mass production, mass advertising, mass consumption, and mass waste goes on in more constructive ways...