Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official leader of the party, so he got the "Presidential Suite" on board 26000 ("The diplomatic way out," joked Haig). Irony flashed through the minds of the arrangers. Two cabins behind Haig would ride Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for whom Haig had worked as a lesser aide. Such is the span of fleeting power...
Germany's contribution is Ludwig van Beethoven, an eleven-hour series in which Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in all nine symphonies and assorted lesser works. By the standards of commercial television, the American 60% is made up of generally low-budget productions: the dance troupes of Twyla Tharp and May O'Donnell, Count Basie at Carnegie Hall and Elizabeth Swados' musical reworking of poems by William Blake. The host and narrator for most of the programming is Patrick Watson, 51, a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and writer who wears a dinner jacket, affects a hearty manner...
...first 15 minutes of the contest, the booters executed as they had against lesser squads all season and seemed destined to travel the familiar path to victory...
Undeterred by that chilly response, Gibson gave the London Daily Mirror a memo purportedly written by a De Lorean executive. It was silent on the subject of a multimillion-dollar investment shortfall, but described a lesser lapse. The memo said the company had purchased gold faucets and other items worth $19,000 at Harrods, the expensive London department store, for the Ulster home of one of its executives. The firm reportedly "fuzzed" these expenses in bookkeeping records. De Lorean dismissed the latest charges and added: "We plan to file substantial libel actions against all the De Lorean people involved...
TAKING AS HIS SUBJECT this lesser half of a noted pair, this shadow of a shade, Brinnin is unable to sustain the same degree of focus and self-effacement he shows in his other studies. He does not have the same interest in Toklas as in Capote, and he does not pretend to. Rather than follow a character's progress and transformation, because of a simple curiosity and fascination for that character's doings, he ignores the character at hand, striving to reach through and beyond Toklas, to Stein. Brinnin's goal, the biography, undermines his intent to depict Toklas...