Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walters, but certainly would give her a good shove toward that goal. Pauley accepted, and the network announced that she would take up her duties Oct. 11. Tom Brokaw was elated: "She's bright and enterprising and engaging, and she just happens to be pretty." Barbara Walters was gracious: "It's unfair to be called the next Barbara Walters. I hope she'll be herself." Jane Pauley was. Said she: "I'm going to Indianapolis to install my two cats with my Aunt Martha...
Businessmen and workers are attracted to the South by its often gracious lifestyle, unspoiled surroundings and relatively abundant raw materials, including lightly taxed rural land. Moreover, since many of the nation's oil and natural-gas wells gush in Texas and Louisiana, energy in much of the South is less costly than in the North...
...city that Maurois was writing about is elsewhere, outside the downtown area. Kansas City has 118 miles of tree-lined parkways and gracious boulevards and 7,211 acres of public parks. Kansas Citians have a fetish for fountains; it is almost a gaucherie for a developer to erect a building without one outside. The latest is a $150,000 concrete and steel-alloy fountain in Blue Valley Park. Some of the loveliest are in the Spanish-style Country Club Plaza, an opulent shopping and residential complex; it was the nation's first shopping center when Developer J.C. Nichols built...
...just 40, a millionaire, world-renowned and, at the peak of his profession, a confident and gracious man. He is pale, despite the Sahara sun, but seemingly healthy. His life with Pierre Berge, his business partner and intimate of 15 years, has probably been as harmonious as most marriages. Yet beneath the patina of assurance, Yves Saint Laurent is a tortured soul, a self-avowed neurotic who is still recovering from an unhappy childhood and the trauma of his brief service in the French army (he spent two months in a solitary psychiatric cell). "Yves," says Berge, "was born with...
...display at Greenwich's National Maritime Museum, where it is expected to attract more than 1 million visitors. Two years in the making, "1776, the British Story of the American Revolution" traces events from just before the Stamp Act was imposed, in 1764, to George Ill's gracious acceptance of credentials from John Adams, the fledgling nation's first minister to London, in 1785. Fittingly, the monarch's words on that occasion ("Let the circumstances of language, religion and blood have their natural and full effect") were tape-recorded for the show by his great-great...