Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Relaxed Style. Mrs. Ford's friends from the years in Congress visit often. One evening she served the same stuffed peppers she used to have in their Alexandria, Va., kitchen and was roundly kidded by her guests. A budget watcher, even with her husband's $200,000 salary, Mrs. Ford recently instructed Chef Henry Haller on how to make pot roast. "With turnips?" asked the amazed chef. She insisted: "That's just the way we have it at home." The relaxed style does not stop at the White House gates. Mrs. Ford, with her personal assistant Nancy...
...White House staff has become accustomed to a new kind of presidential daughter. Susan Ford, 17, declines to alter her casual style. After classes, she changes from her skirt-and-socks school uniform into baggy white painters' pants with a Charlie Chaplin fit and an equally ill-fitting plaid shirt. Her third-floor world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when...
...discuss athletic issues on a new magazine-type program. ABC'S veteran sports announcer, Howard, was on hand to welcome Billie Jean. Just to make sure nobody got the impression that he was afraid of a newcomer whose vinegary ripostes may overwhelm his own from-the-battlefield style of reportage, he stepped over and gave Billie Jean a kiss...
...vogue. Eugene O'Neill's Hairy Ape, Hemingway's grunting heroes and Steinbeck's wretched Okies were the common components of tragedy. But even milestones can erode with the years and weather. Depression America is not Recession America; economic determinism is no longer in literary style. The ranch hands who surround George and Lennie are types rather than characters, and the stagecraft contains all the ungainly devices of yesteryear: the breathless entrances, the lamplit confessionals, the contrived pathos that redeems criminal actions...
...work, as it does in Pippin. In Of Mice and Men, it grants the play a fresh resonance. The interdependence of George and Lennie is far more poignant and tragic than in the original. Indeed, it is doubtful whether the play would have been producible in the old style (a 1968 TV revival with Nicol Williamson and George Segal was two hours of dead air). Matters have reversed themselves since Steinbeck's day, when words were the masters of the stage. Today, as Conway and Jones prove, it is the singer, not the song...