Word: absent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stopped in at Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel recently, exactly eight years after the Democratic National Convention. The Yippies and their banner--a Vietcong flag--were noticeably absent. In their stead was another party and another banner: the American Independent Party and its emblem, a large American eagle--made of styrofoam...
...deadly new weapon called the "splurge gun." Fat Sam, lacking this latest in weaponry, must defend his holdings with that most ancient and honorable of movie armaments, the custard pie. He also recruits Bugsy to furnish a little brawn and some badly needed brains. Bugsy, however, is frequently absent from duty, since he has taken to managing a heavyweight prizefighter named Leroy (Paul Murphy). Bugsy has high hopes that his boy's fistic skills will help raise a stake to take Blousey to Tinseltown...
Nancy made the first move. On opening night she appeared, a stunning study in red, in the glass-enclosed VIP booth high above the floor on the north end. Cheering her as a surrogate for her absent husband, Reagan supporters broke into a foot-stamping ovation that lasted more than 15 minutes. During the tumult Betty arrived, in an aqua dress, and took her seat in the front row above the floor on the south end. But her arms-high greeting could not overwhelm the Reaganites' demonstration...
...there is a cry from their daughter's room. Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujold) goes to investigate and is absent too long. Michael (Cliff Robertson) follows to find his life suddenly shattered-wife and child kidnaped and a note demanding a huge ransom pinned to the bed. At times he is desperate, then hopeful. The police enlist his aid in a plot to outwit the kidnapers, assuring him that official expertise is a better guarantee of his family's safety than his fortune...
...failure of the interviewers to find the answer put the main burden on the scientific sleuths working in state and federal laboratories. Their task involved a painstaking process of elimination, in which known disease agents were sought, and, if absent, exonerated...