Word: wording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word article, by New Yorker Staff Writer Suzannah Lessard, does not attempt to document any amatory adventures. But it asserts that the gossip is true and suggests that Kennedy's philandering is a "latent issue" that will surface as the electorate struggles to get the Senator's character in sharper focus, and offers her own instant analysis: his behavior represents "a severe case of arrested development, a kind of narcissistic intemperance...
...word for it is Gesamtgastspiel, which, roughly translated, means everybody gets in on the act. And indeed, as the Vienna State Opera unpacked in Washington for its first U.S. visit, everybody-and everything-seemed to have come along. Thirty-seven soloists and 100 chorus members? Check. An orchestra of 95, with all their instruments? Check. Thirty-five stagehands and five staff workers, plus 23 custom-built 40-ft. containers full of scenery and costumes? Check...
...with some wariness, therefore, because the subject of the film is a 17-year-old girl's death after a long battle with cancer. But Promises is clear, direct and honest, and free of both cant and sentimentality. It is also lively, in the exact sense of the word; the flow of intelligence and feeling between Buffy, the sick girl, and her family and friends makes her inevitable death tolerable...
...power, the imagination, the deadliness to fight Germany." Her further efforts managed to keep her husband from openly breaking with the powerful Prime Minister. Later, when Winston himself occupied No. 10 Downing Street, she did not hesitate to criticize him. During the worst days of World War II, word of his rudeness reached her. She dropped him a note: "I have noticed a deterioration in your manner; you are not as kind as you used...
...Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin turned out to be a note about a Boston fund raiser for Ronald Reagan. Singer Glen Campbell, it seems, is slated to give a benefit concert for John Connally. From the White House, via a guest list for a recent campaign dinner, comes word that supporters of the Carter-Mondale team include Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Cheryl Ladd, Leontyne Price, Andre Previn and Andre Kostelanetz...