Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Nowhere is Graber's clean and classic style more grandly evident than in Winfield House, the London residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Britain that he and Haines renovated for Publisher Walter Annenberg at a cost of more than $1 million. Graber's following is predominantly Western and wealthy, including such clients as the Alfred Bloomingdales (department stores) and the Henry Salvatoris (oil). Says Grace Salvatori: "He has a great sense of color and quality. The night Ted Graber has finished, everything is complete, right down to the flowers and bonbons on the tables. Your husband comes...
...drive out from the Albany, Ga., airport in a rented car, 40 miles north toward Plains, the first clear fact is that the country hasn't changed-not the physical country, not hereabouts. The meticulously tended pecan groves stand on in the clean light; the well-grazed cows are still marching barnward in neatly spaced lines as if in rehearsal for their next state fair. The two crossroad towns, Leesburg and Smithville, show a little new paint on the old stores. But otherwise the stretch looks much as it must have all Jimmy Carter's life-no billboards...
...real trouble is Altman's direction, at once spacy and junked up. He caused an entire small town, Sweethaven, to be constructed on Malta, and it is as jumbled as Segar's Thimble Theatre was clean-lined. Worse, the sound track is constantly amutter with asides, off-screen voices, half-overheards-Altman trademarks at odds with the spare, sharp verbal play that was one of the delights in the comic...
Oglo offers some final views on the Wellesley women she sees today--a different breed from that described in the opening ditty. "It's time people took us seriously; the Wellesley woman these days is down-to-earth, intelligent and laid back," she says. "It is definitely a clean-cut, live and let live atmosphere...
...carting suitcases, Harris was soon drafted and out at Fort Hood, Texas, 123rd Maintenance Battalion. After two years with a clean record in the Army, his company commander agreed to write him a letter of recommendation, vouching for his character and suggesting that the CRR grant him his degree...