Word: neatness
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...rare breed: an urban entrepreneur working in direct competition with the state. With the help of a brother and sister, Bai handles 80 to 100 customers a day in his neat, red-painted studio, which he keeps open until 8 p.m. seven days a week. He works in the darkroom until midnight, processing the negatives and retouching them to eliminate warts, wrinkles and other unflattering features. "I don't rest," Bai says. "Even during festivals, I never close." Bai usually charges less than one yuan (500) for a portrait, undercutting prices at the state-run photographic studio...
...back on, his dark suit is crisply pressed. Every hair is at parade rest. The unlit but badly mangled cigar is gone. Neat, crisp and controlled, ready to face the public, Walter Mondale is once again in what his aides call his "full Norwegian" mode...
...controversy over Jackson's remarks might have been much easier for many Blacks to accept had the messenger been white. It certainly would have been neat and easy. But it didn't happen that way. It rarely does...
...Henry Aaron, Darrell Evans, and Dave Johnson all hit 40 homers in 1973. Ralph Garr won the 1974 batting title by hitting .353, and Buzz Capra was the ERA champ in 1974 with a neat 2.210 mark...
...trouble laying a glove on him. Of course, columnists and commentators who are paid to have opinions are in there mixing all the time, but it is the reportorial press that has the problem. Reagan uses anecdotes to great political effect in his speeches, pat-a-caking them into neat, sugar-coated homilies, but his facts often turn out to be wrong. Lately, according to Lou Cannon of the Washington Post, two sets of Jewish leaders have described a story told them by the President: he had been a member of an Army unit that photographed Nazi camps and therefore...