Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bankers and businessmen quickly hailed the measures, which many thought long overdue. "Superb!" exclaimed Robert Abboud, chairman of First National Bank of Chicago. "It is stiff medicine but very much needed medicine, and I applaud the Administration for having the courage to apply it." Ford Motor Co. Vice Chairman and President Philip Caldwell said the dollar-saving moves should "slow inflation and re-establish growth on a healthier basis." Richard Kjeldsen, senior international economist for Security Pacific National Bank in Los Angeles, asserted, "The President's economic package is drastic, abrupt and volatile?it's just what the doctor ordered...
...American consumers who buy the goods that the Japanese export with such zeal seem to agree. Pollster Louis Harris found that a strong (64%) majority are persuaded that the U.S. is getting shortchanged on trade, by Japan as well as by other countries. Today a good many Americans would applaud the exasperation confessed by John Nevin, chairman of Zenith Corp., in the latest Harvard Business Review. Says he: "The question is whether Japan is going to open up or the rest of the world is going to shut down Japan...
...only country in the world in which playgoers applaud the scenery when the curtain goes up. They may have seen the best of the show...
George Carlin has never tried to change the world; he just likes to run up on that stage and gesticulate and sweat and express, and the gales of laughter--sometimes even hysterical and mad--make him feel good. "My purpose is self-expression, and when they applaud or laugh, it's their way of saying, 'Hey man, we like your self-expression," he says...
Still, Go Tell the Spartans is, within its limits, an earnest and honest little picture that goes against the escapist grain of movies at this moment. The gesture is probably as futile, commercially, as defending Muc Wa was militarily, but you have to applaud the bravery of the effort and issue some kind of citation to a film that, all told, celebrates unconsciously honorable conduct by individuals enlisted in a bad cause. And offers a lot of good acting in the supporting roles too. -Richard Schickel