Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alarm who met in Washington last week for the White House Conference on Natural Beauty (see THE NATION) was Mrs. Mary Lasker, 65, whose qualifications as beautifier are beyond dispute. Among other things, Mary Las ker is a devoted philanthropist and sup porter of Democratic Party causes, and a warm friend of President Johnson's at whose side she sat last month at a' Waldorf dinner for party contributors. New Yorkers know her best as the city's unofficial green thumb...
...Well," mused the customer, still skeptical, "Do you keep them in those awful prefabricated aluminum coops, or in the good old fashioned well-constructed wooden kind, that keeps the hens warm and contended...
...fantastic 159.4 m.p.h. That demolished the lap record set last year by Scotland's Jimmy Clark. So Clark squeezed into his own Lotus-Ford and got his record back with a clocking of 160.9 m.p.h. He held it only as long as it took A. J. Foyt to warm his engine up. A two-time winner of the Memorial
Mutual Feeling. The maestro himself, whose rapier tongue is legendary, was the very model of a cultural ambassador. When fans nearly jostled him off his feet at the Moscow Conservatory, he blithely passed the episode off as "a warm and interesting experience." The feeling was mutual; critical acclaim for the orchestra was nothing short of rapturous. Izvestia was alternately "enthralled," "fascinated" and "inspired...
Nagin is an engaging puzzle. He always remains detached. He is warm, he smiles with real affection. But he never plunges into his part. He seems to be watching his fellow actors as well as reacting to them. Half his glances seem really directed at the audience. This reserve may well be justified in the magical character he plays. But it does close off one means of audience involvement. And it limits his comic effect. You can't project omniscience and take the audience in. Even if you have all the answers, you have to look fooled to be funny...