Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesters later drafted a letter to the Secretary General of the Model U.N., Larisa R. Wright '87, accusing the conference organizers of "extremely poor and myopic judgment" in inviting Smith to deliver the keynote address...
While Larisa Wright '87, the secretary general of HNMUN, holds down an off-campus job, none of her three undersecretary generals are employed...
...possibility of a grand "summit" between the White House and Congress, which could achieve a mix of spending cuts and new revenues. "We can sit down and go to work if he'll give at all," said Speaker O'Neill of the President. But Majority Leader Jim Wright asserted: "The President has no give. None. He is rigid and inflexible...
...Baxter, 62, throaty-voiced actress whose stage and screen career, from her 1936 Broadway debut in Seen but Not Heard to her current role as TV's Hotel owner, embraced heartland innocence and brittle sophistication; after a stroke; in New York City. Baxter, the granddaughter of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, won an Oscar as best supporting actress for The Razor's Edge (1946) and was nominated for her scheming ingenue Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950); 20 years later she played Margo Channing, the aging star against whom Eve schemed, in Applause, a Broadway musical based on the film...
...late art deco, the Day-Glo plastics of Pop, the high-tech doodads and joke furniture of today. The other is a reformist urge. When not fashioning playthings, designers turn grave, producing furniture and other objects that are neo- Puritan, high-minded. The severe geometries of Frank Lloyd Wright's turn- of- the-century interiors and Steven Holl's beautiful side chair (1984), for example, can have an almost oppressive sobriety. As playfulness alternates with the more austere, missionary vision, the American cultural personality seems like a preacher's child, frisky and slaphappy on Saturday night, dour and repentant Sunday...