Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feiffer: Well, Rockefeller is every publisher's favorite millionaire. Why? His family connections don't hurt. All the very things that I have against him enchant vast portions of the middle class: his life style, his money. He's a Renaissance man who loves modern art and is philanthropic...
...more visionary effort in the Oval Office, and then a public rhetoric that matches in level the intelligence and awareness of the American people. The amount of time and energy required for such study and analysis of the array of problems now before the President precludes the old minstrel style of politics...
...John? "Of course not," protests Novelist Gwen Davis, who used lo skinnydip in her nearby pool. "Still, Ihe federal marshals slayed up there," adds Davis, who has since moved. Last week in a Santa Monica court the matter was settled peacefully when the builders of Dean's Spanish-style stucco home agreed to construct a fence and add a little judicious landscaping. The room will remain, presumably to serve as Dean's office after his release from prison...
...ideal that hovered above Bauhaus practice -that social conduct could be purified and made better by all-embracing design systems-now seems to have been a heroic illusion, an ignis fatuus of avant-garde thought: no one really becomes less wicked or more rational by living in an International Style building...
...Cars. Shaw threw unstinting labor against these odds and almost won. By the late '20s, he was supporting his wife, nine surviving children and a nephew in something very close to style. An image drawn from these times captures a rural American dream: "O, it was a beautiful tree, right to the northwest side of my car shed, two-car shed; had that '26 Ford and that '28 Chevrolet stationed close to that plum tree." Such prosperity was Shaw's undoing. Local whites "didn't like to see a nigger with too much." The sharecroppers...