Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University and will work on a cattle ranch in Utah. "Dad probably wasn't too hot on that," Susan remarked, "but he would never object so strongly that he would tell Steve not to go." For himself, Steve, who has been tooling around Ocean City, Md., in his yellow Jeep, remarked: "I'm still trying to get used to the idea that the man I think of as my Dad is the President of the United States...
...placed on the small desk that is in front of the south window. Nixon puts the earphones on, settles himself into the armchair covered in brown velvet, a favorite brought from the New York apartment. The President puts his feet up on the ottoman and uses one of his yellow legal pads to make notes as the tape unwinds. The hours slip by as he relives history in this melancholy loneliness...
Freelandia Air Travel Club took off last fall in the midst of a press blitz that puffed its low fares ($69, Newark-Los Angeles), its organic chic (natural food, a water bed in its yellow DC-8) and its ringing slogan, "Not-For-Profit." Not-For-Real would have been more accurate...
Jobriath's entourage crowds his dressing room. The next show goes on in 15 minutes. A fellow with riding breeches and a blonde-streaked pageboy is peering under a trunk marked "Five Dollar Shoes;" "Where's my yellow bracelet? I had two yellow bracelets." "You look exquisite without it dear," says the lady with the English accent. She is Jobriath's hairdresser. "Dahling, would you fix me a drink; I don't want any of this horse piss." Husky men in tight pants and T-shirts, reading "Queen," hustle about the room moving microphones and wires...
...must decide each case on its merits, while remaining accountable to his editor and, ultimately, to his audience. The decision is usually a battle of conscience waged by journalists far more seriously than most outsiders realize. In general, the American press today is far more responsible, far less "yellow," than at any time in its agitated history...