Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hero of the story: Allen Franken, young, just out of college, writes for NBC's new Saturday Night comedy show. The setting: Franken gets NBC press pass and follows Reagan around for a day in the backwaters of New Hampshire. The confrontation: the young turk gets Reagan's attention, violating a press hands-off policy during a "Citizens' Press Conference." The question, second-hand, is this: "Uh, Mr. Reagan, it seems today that you've said some contradictory things, and I'd like to inquire about it. At one point today, you told a group of people that you were...
...attitude that bribery is acceptable where it is customary seems to be widespread in American business. Recently, Pitney-Bowes Chairman Fred T. Allen commissioned Opinion Research Corp. to poll upper-and middle-level corporate managers on whether they believed bribes should be paid to officials in foreign countries where such practices are standard. A surprising 48% said yes. A survey of 73 senior international executives, announced last week by the Conference Board, an independent business research organization, came up with exactly the same finding. Three-quarters of the executives said their companies had been asked to pay bribes...
...even neutral news over it. Many lines, especially in the kitchen scenes, can seem funny and pathetic at once. Informed by a caller of yet another crisis, Mary replies, "I can't talk now, I'm on the phone." Actress Louise Lasser somehow turns that Gracie Allen yuk into a more everyday kind of bewilderment. Even Mary's usual costume can be described several ways. A silly little mini with a Peter Pan collar and puffed sleeves, it could be a saucy nurse's uniform, a chaste skating costume or just a child's dress...
Palmer denied earlier reports that Hasty Pudding had asked Sir Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, and Woody Allen to accept the award and that each had turned it down...
...spectrum of the rainbow, from red to violet to the annihilation of white. The Birds offers two talking ducks (Curtis and Daffy) trying to fly south through a polluted world; surprisingly, the effect is neither grotesque nor maudlin. Death and the Single Girl revises a page from Woody Allen. An unemployed office worker decides to end it all. Death, an overworked businessman, makes sexual demands in return for his service ("I come and you go"). Failing at that, he offers her a job as his secretary. "If you couldn't be dead," the girl reasons, "this was the next...