Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Darwin was described by the great American golf writer Herbert Warren Wind as "a man of exceptional ability and enormous personal charm." In fact, the enduring sobriquets Darwin lent to his contemporaries and the anecdotes that surround his own career would alone be enough to fill a volume...
...country boy," Stewart says, "and I expected that a billionaire would surround himself in luxury, with Rembrandt paintings on the walls and exquisite furniture. I found a skinny, bare-assed naked man sitting on an unmade three-quarter bed. His hair hung about a foot down his back. His beard was straggly and down to his chest. I tried not to act surprised, as if I was used to meeting naked billionaires sitting on unmade beds. I started to put my case with the barber tools on a chair. Hughes shouted, 'No, no! Not on the chair...
...these pictures would never have been taken." So trumpets Leni Riefenstahl, whose previous pursuits of the strange included making effective propaganda films for Hitler's Third Reich (Triumph of the Will). Now 74 and a photographer of the black African people of the Sudan, Riefenstahl still prefers to surround herself and her subjects with clouds of Sturm und Drang. Last year's volume, The Last of the Nuba, photographically displayed Mesakin tribesmen as statuary reminiscent of the heroic Mussolini-modern style of the 1930s. People of Kau is as technically dazzling as the Nuba book, though once again...
Like everyone else, Presidents prefer to surround themselves with people they like and trust and whose ideas closely parallel their own. This week Jimmy Carter is expected to name to one of the top economic posts in his Administration an imposing (6 ft. 4 in., 235 Ibs.), voluble, roughhewn Georgia banker named Thomas Bertram Lance, 45, who not only is a close friend but whose no-nonsense ways and conservative fiscal views match Carter's own. The most likely bet for the slot he will fill: director of the Office of Management and Budget, a job that would seem...
...neatly manicured lawns that surround Irvine-built factories and office buildings, workers toss Frisbees during their lunch hours or nap under the midday California sun. Many of them live within walking distance, in Irvine-designed homes adjacent to golf courses, swimming pools and lakes. Shopping centers and parks, all landscaped by Irvine, are less than ten minutes away. It is an idyllic work-live-play environment, carved out of beanfields and cow pastures south of Los Angeles. Irvine has built on only 10,000 acres, and plans to continue developing its land over the next 25 years with nearly...