Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...women included political neophytes, hand-picked party workers or their wives, union representatives and elected officials. Also present were hundreds of members, both men and women, of the National Organization for Women, the National Women's Political Caucus and the National Abortion Rights Action League. Preconvention polling by these groups showed that they had the votes to win on major issues, but no one knew how the delegates would react to high-pressure politicking by the Carter forces...
...cautioned against dismissing Fahd's words too readily. The Saudis, said the analysts, might eventually feel obliged to take some action, perhaps a cut in oil production.* The Saudis saw the Israeli action both as a calculated insult to the Arab world and as final proof that under present conditions the Israelis simply are not prepared to negotiate a Palestinian settlement in any serious way. The Saudi royal family, moreover, looks upon itself as the guardian of Islam's holy places, which include Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's predominantly Arab...
Mazursky's 1969 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was a sharply sketched comment on sexuality in the Esalen age. In the years since, his work has gone soft; with An Unmarried Woman, he finally arrived at his present state, where he sentimentalizes the mildly eccentric, celebrates sweet-spirited rebelliousness and generally goofs off on promising themes. The result has been a series of truly enervating movies, of which Willie and Phil is but the most spineless. Its three leading players do what they can with the material, but their task is quite hopeless...
...William Glackens' Breezy Day, Tugboats, New York Harbor, circa 1910. But in Glackens' cheerfully slathered impasto, the sky streaked with cat's paws of pink and the puffs of whistle steam stitched across the fat, oily pelt of the sea, an other kind of sensibility is present. It is very like the world of the French Fauve painters Derain and Vlaminck. The gap between Paris and New York has narrowed to less than a decade, and American modernism is about to begin in earnest. -By Robert Hughes
Merle Miller is a novelist, journalist and author of the 1974 bestseller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. What is an oral biography? Essentially, it is a dramatic device to present a subject through an arrangement of quotations threshed from hundreds of interviews. The result is documentary folklore in which the leading character-usually described as larger than life-does not stop growing simply because he is dead. Miller's Truman emerged as the most uncommon common man ever to say s.o.b. in the White House. Until, of course, Lyndon Baines Johnson...