Reading Hodges, I mused on what curious, creative times those immediate postwar years were, with splendidly durable wheels and guns and rock'n'roll consumer durables making their first, tentative appearances on the market, albeit largely inspired by the efforts of the 20th century's two leading psychopaths, Hitler and Stalin.
The pictures by the fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier and the interview by Julia Reed, in which Laura Bush tells her 22-year-old daughters that they look like "cupcakes" in their dresses, coincide with the first tentative appearances by the twins on the campaign trail.
A tentative fall appearance on the weekly schedule was postponed until January in favor of monthly tryouts for the broadcast.
The concept of gender mainstreaming made a tentative initial appearance on the international stage at the third UN world conference on women, held in 1985.
The initial, tentative, early appearance of something like political maturity might be an answer.
The president appeared tentative in his first appearances after the attacks, and then overly bellicose on Monday, when he made his "wanted: dead or alive" remarks at the Pentagon.
Despite the high-profile way in which Mr. McGreevey announced his sexual orientation in a nationally televised news conference, he still seemed a bit tentative about his appearance last night at the Sheraton New York Hotel in Midtown.
The tentative time of appearance of different members of the AGO family during evolution was calculated using TIME TREE (www.timetree.org) [ 57, 58].
And at 2 p.m. local time, the campaign sent the press corps a tentative schedule of appearances for Mr. Gingrich next week in the caucus states of Colorado and Minnesota, and in Ohio, where early voting for the March 6 primary begins Feb. 7. On Friday, he will be in Washington to address the Conservative Political Action Conference.
