Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the account books ultimately say about the convention's impact on New York, the city can enter the event as a distinct plus on the image ledger. On the final night of the convention, Texas delegates held up cards spelling out TEXAS THANKS NEW YORK CITY, and the rest of the crowd began a chant that must have been music to Mayor Abe Beame's ears: "We love New York, we love New York...
...CARTER, 8, is not quite campaigning, but she is a distinct political asset. A frisky, freckled, strawberry blonde who looks like Huck Finn's kid sister with the inevitable Carter smile, she basks in all the attention without letting it turn her head. She has, however, learned to turn a profit by selling lemonade and sandwiches at her already famous stand in Plains. In one day's brisk entrepreneurship, she and her pint-size partners earned $23 from tourists and newsmen who were thirsty for anything that the Carter family provided...
Thus at the outset, Jefferson stated, or implied, the major assumptions on winch separation is based. First, that the Americans are "one people" dissolving political ties with another. They are not British subjects in open revolt against their own government but already a distinct entity unto themselves; independence is not sedition but something like the dissolving of a partnersinp, under the rules of the social compact by winch people originally instituted their political structures...
...King sought to answer such criticisms in an 18-minute speech, de livered in English, before a joint session of Congress. "The monarchy," he vowed, "will ensure the orderly access to power of distinct political alternatives, in accordance with the freely expressed will of the people." Spain's still potent old guard and growing Communist Party may complicate that task, but Ford later told the King at a white-tie dinner: "I am confident that your leadership will prove more than equal to the tasks ahead." All told, the King impressed his listeners as a young...
...course of portraying a psychopathic "regulator"-a hired gun charged by a Montana cattle baron with ridding his range of rustlers-Marlon Brando employs three distinct accents and wears, among other exotic items, a gorgeously fringed buckskin jacket, a coolie's hat and, finally, a grandmotherly gingham dress with a poke bonnet. Obviously, his performance in The Missouri Breaks does not suffer from an excess of discipline. Indeed, it is fair to say that it is gaudy and disruptive to the balance of forces Director Penn must surely have wanted to maintain between Brando and Jack Nicholson...