Word: stylist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special case. There are no credits for any of the musicians and singers who back up Olivia on the 12 selections. But that doesn't mean that no one else besides Olivia gets recognition. Au contraire. The four credits on the cover mention her make-up person, her hair stylist, her photographer and her art director, but with all that emphasis on the external aspects of Greatest Hits, the inside is bound to show signs of neglect...
Safire less frequently bashes Republicans, but he has publicly disowned Spiro Agnew for his anti-Semitism and criticized Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger for encouraging rebellion among Iraq's Kurds and then refusing to aid them. A slick stylist with a sweet tooth for bon mots, Safire resisted obvious puns on the Kurds but drops groaners like "Zbig Government," and "Yamani or ya life...
Nelson turned out to be the natural bridge between country music's beer-drinker followers and its longhair fans. As a singer, he is a careful stylist who knows about the niceties of phrasing and admires Frank Sinatra. When Willie sings his songs of troubled romance or lonely Bloody Mary mornings, his voice has none of the beery sentimentality found in many honky-tonk laments. "What we do is fairly simple," he says with genuine modesty. "If people like it, they really like it and they'll come back again...
Died. John Stuart Martin, 76, former TIME Managing Editor; after a long illness; in Phillipsburg, N.J. A cousin of TIME Co-Founder Briton Hadden, Martin became Managing Editor when Hadden died suddenly in 1929. A demanding stylist who held that TIME should be written from the point of view of "the man in the moon at the end of the current century," Martin in his long career also worked on LIFE and FORTUNE, wrote books and the narration for the film The Fighting Lady...
Green's unorthodox style bespeaks his resolute individuality. Sir Walter Simpson in 1887 in his definitive The Art of Golf recognized the strengths of the unorthodox stylist: "Do I maintain, the reader may ask, that everyone ought to have the same style? By no means; on the contrary, for you or me to model ourselves on a champion is about as profitless as to copy out Hamlet in the hope of becoming Shakespeare...