Word: superbness
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...year around the White House, détente has a second meaning: harmony between Pat Nixon and the kitchen. Last week relations were superb. Assistant Chef Hans Raffert fashioned a two-foot-high house out of 16½ pounds of gingerbread, mortared it together with six pounds of icing, shingled it with five pounds of cookies, and decorated it with gumdrops, a pound of hard candy and a dozen peppermint canes. An embassy child stood spellbound before this creation, reached out and broke off a piece of the front and popped it in his mouth...
...other New York pols can match. "Rockefeller had a fleeting idea of who all the county chairmen were," says one Wilson associate, "but Malcolm is on a first-name basis with most of the county leaders and the state committeemen, and many of the party workers." Wilson's superb party connections, combined with the generous amounts of political patronage that he can dispense as Governor, give him an inside track for the gubernatorial nomination, especially now that Duryea, his chief potential opponent, is in legal trouble. But the bland Wilson, who has had little visibility, may face an uphill...
...fact, State approached the game convinced that it could end the Bruins' winning streak at 78 (leaving State with a string of 30 victories). Burleson, with a 5-in. height advantage over Walton, seemed capable of neutralizing the U.C.L.A. star. David Thompson, a superb outside shooter, ball handler and rebounder, promised to shut off U.C.L.A.'S dangerous forward, Keith Wilkes...
...prospect for middle linebacker. "Look for him and you'll find the ball," say the scouts. "He might be better than a bunch of middle linebackers who are already regulars in the pros." O'Neil, who roams the field from sideline to sideline, is a superb pass rusher. When he is not blitzing the quarterback, O'Neil can contain the sweep and cover against passes. He had a hand in 72 tackles this year...
...superb cinematographer David Watkin has lit the family's old house in low, somber tones, giving it a tangible but evasive air of menace that perfectly matches the shadows and undertones of Pinter's language...