Word: warming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Picture this: a Barcelona summer afternoon, 1992. The triple-jump finals are about to begin. Al Joyner jogs out to the track and, taking off his USA warm-up jersey, shows off his new, one-legged...
...Philadelphia, churning out likenesses of glassy-eyed sitters who looked as though they had been whacked with a board. But it was in England and France that photography took on the character of an art in the work of men like the Parisian caricaturist Nadar, who brought a warm-blooded gravity to camera portraiture...
Public service became an addiction for him long ago. It isn't for want of a warm personal life. He remains gooey over his wife of 21 years, Kathleen Emmet Darman, a writer who has a Ph.D. in literature. They met, by his account, as teenagers at a "Beacon sociable," where Brahmin calves learned to dance under proper supervision. He sought for years to get her attention, even using ploys that could later be called Darmanesque. She gently scoffs at this romantic notion, conceding only that they met as graduate students at a dinner he arranged for that purpose. They...
...mock match, he entertained Bush by donning a tank helmet like the one Dukakis wore in a TV ad. Next round, he displayed a pair of Heavyhands, the weights Dukakis uses in speed-walking. In the critique sessions afterward, Ailes says, "Darman was great: warm, funny and very sharp." Bush agreed. Despite his earlier doubts about Darman's team spirit, the President-elect told his transition team to forget about a list of prospects for Budget Director; he knew who would serve him best. Darman was delighted. Now he can put off a new version of his book for what...
Design-wise, the simple, rectangular building will complement the ultramodern, cement Carpenter Center and the majestic red-brick Fogg without mimicking either. To enhance the structural unity are the proposed exterior materials, "warm gray" porcelain metal panels, honed, green Vermont slate tiles and flame-finished pink granite, "intended to mediate the monolithic scale of the concrete Carpenter Center on the one hand, and the brick of the Fogg on the other...