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Somewhere in the States they've got a button painted...
...neater than she is.") She buys enough cosmetics to underwrite a television program, spends hours and fortunes at the hairdresser, but cares little for clothes, buying cut-rate bargains. She has been wearing the same grey-fur-collared cloth coat to Broadway openings for years, frequently with a button missing...
...Adams House Drama Society pushed every button, pulled every level, manipulated every winch and pulley that the Loeb Pleasure Palace houses in its bottomless toy box, in an immense and elaborate hymn to tedium. Peer Gynt fell--like the silly feathered pig which makes an agonizing descent from the rafters (while the actors stand and star, speechless)--with a long long, oh so long thud. (Three long hours...
...even by some fellow Republicans as "Government by a few, for a few, at the expense of the public," but which he proudly pursued as articles of faith "next to my religion": high tariffs, low taxes, what was good for big business was good for the country. Wearing high-button shoes and puffing a cigar, lifelong Bachelor Grundy was a key man in political backrooms as far back as 1920 when he helped wangle Harding's nomination, remained powerful until he quit politics at 84 in 1947, and lived to see his machine destroyed in 1950 in a bitter...
Fire & Ink. As if at the push of a button, turmoil erupted in dozens of countries on five continents. In Moscow, a mob assaulted the Belgian embassy, smashed windows, and broke bottles of ink against the walls while militiamen stood by and watched. The demonstration was so well organized that whether the students from Africa were French-speaking or English, they showed up with placards (see cut) in English-for the benefit of U.S. TV cameras. Hours later, similar crowds were in action in Belgrade, Amsterdam, Paris...