Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calls her, did volunteer work in her home town of Philadelphia during John Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign, was signed on to Robert Kennedy's staff in 1967 to answer mail from children-a task she performed with engaging touches of whimsy. Age 23, barely five feet tall, with red hair, she enjoyed playing with the Kennedy brood at Hickory Hill. Like the other girls from the "boiler room," she was shattered by Bobby Kennedy's death, seemed to snap out of her melancholy only considerably later, after she began working for the Kennedy family foundation...
...Summarizing his achievement in a speech some time ago, Architect Philip Johnson said: "Le Corbusier invents, invents magnificently and, as at Ronchamps, makes a new shape of monument for the world to admire. Mies purifies and purifies till, as at Seagram, he makes the paradigm for America's tall building. I don't want to be interesting, I want to be good,' he liked to say. Ronchamps is more amazing; Wright's Guggenheim far more extraordinary; but the Seagram Building may perhaps be the most 'good...
...with the help of a $100,000 loan from Nelson Rockefeller and sold profitably last year). A Kennedy liberal, Braden headed California's board of education, a post in which he clashed often with Max Rafferty, the reactionary state superintendent. This journalistic odd couple-Braden is tall, wiry and intense, Mankiewicz is short, round-faced and bemused -launched their project in the belief that most columns "are lousy" and fail to express a "sense of outrage." Yet the two have developed a detached style, garnished with historical and literary references, which mutes their anger. They have assailed such targets...
...Wayne remains gristly underneath the adipose. Even so, Wayne is a bit like Clark Kent waiting to change into Superman. The real man seems to be the one onscreen. Up there, equipped with a rug and a role, 60 feet tall and stereophonic, he assumes his rightful proportions...
...typically nuance-free Wayne western about four lusty, brawling brothers. But that was just for loot. Now that he was back on his feet, some things were griping him. The moral backslide, for one. He stumped for his friends Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. "I said there was a tall, lanky kid that led 150 airplanes across Berlin. He was an actor, but that day, I said, he was a colonel. Colonel Jimmy Stewart. So I said, what is all this crap about Reagan being an actor...