Word: tint
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When Carter in 1979 changed his hair part from right to left and added a little tint, Pitts was aghast, confiding to friends, "That guy is not going to last." One Pitts theory was that untested leaders could, with seemingly % innocent things, set off a slide into oblivion. In Pitts' view, Carter's hair change was too dramatic, suggesting self-adulation. And when Clinton had his $200 haircut from Beverly Hills' Christophe aboard Air Force One, Pitts predicted an image implosion because the new President would be viewed as indulgent and undignified...
...hair, Milt, who adored the actor turned President, gathered up a few of his White House clippings, brought them out and showed them to the skeptics. The hair Pitts displayed had one silver strand for every 50 deep-brown hairs, not something that could be arranged in a tint. The fact was that Pitts had a fascination with Reagan's enduring and abundant turf. One day, while standing at the back of a crowd listening to Reagan speak, Milt leaned over and, with an affectionate chortle, said, "Look at him. Without that head of hair and that smile, he still...
...William Cullen Bryant in his funeral oration on Cole, "that the conscious valleys miss his accustomed visits and that the autumnal glories of the woods are paler because of his departure." His death, opined a newspaper editorial, was "a public and national calamity." Even allowing for the high rhetorical tint required of such exequies 150 years ago, it's hard to think of an American artist whose death, tomorrow, would inspire such sentiments...
...directly, grabbing a file with a mouse, dragging it across the screen and dropping it into a folder or trash can. Much of the genius of the Mac -- its look and feel -- is in the accumulation of such details: the pinstripes across the top of a window; the gray tint in the scroll bar; the way an icon zooms to fill the screen when a new program is opened...
After a successful stint as executive director of the College Republicans, Reed moved from Washington to Raleigh and set up a conservative organization with an evangelical tint, Students for America. In 1984 North Carolina offered the country's hottest Senate race, Jesse Helms vs. Jim Hunt, and Reed wanted his new group to be in on the action. It was at the Helms victory party that a pretty 16-year-old Helms volunteer introduced herself to Reed. Jo Anne Young thought he was about 19 and "really cute." It would be nearly two years before they had their first official...