Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Armchair View. It was still not known whether Patty had actually been won over to the band's vague philosophy, with its Maoist cant and its dedication to deadly terrorism. There was furious debate, despite the 1,200 photographs snapped by the bank's cameras during the five-minute robbery, over whether Patty had willingly participated. In Washington, Attorney General William Saxbe, whose foot-in-mouth disease seems to be becoming increasingly virulent, gratuitously offered his armchair Sherlock Holmes view that the girl was "not a reluctant participant," and labeled all bank robbers, including Patty, "common criminals." Reacting angrily, Hearst...
...Armchair jocks are not the only ones who remember Fitzsimmons, however. One insider who should know, Tom Sanders, regrets the senior's decision to sit it out. "The gentleman can play basketball," Sanders said before the Penn-Princeton weekend. "We had expected to have him back in the thick of the league race...
...Paris assigned a man to a Pompidou watch. He saw what other curious observers have noted too: gradually Pompidou has reduced his schedule to almost a blank page. When he addressed the Gaullist Party faithful in Poitiers three weeks ago, precautions were taken to preserve his strength. An armchair was placed close by, and his aides made sure he had to walk up no more than three steps...
Like millions of armchair sportsmen, Robert L. Martin spent the final Sunday of 1973 in front of his TV set. Ensconced in the den of his Las Vegas home, he watched the Minnesota Vikings systematically destroy the Dallas Cowboys. Then he switched channels to see the Miami Dolphins take apart the Oakland Raiders. Unlike his fellow fans, though, Martin was actually hard at work all the time he was staring at the tube. Soon after the final gun sounded, he received a call from the Churchill Downs bookie parlor across town and announced his initial betting line for the Super...
...Gedda, Jules Bastin, Josephine Veasey (London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis conducting; Philips; 3 LPs; $20.94). This work exists on one of the composer's loftier plateaus of the mind rather than on a workable theatrical level. Thus Damnation is in many ways especially well suited to armchair listening. Continuing his masterly unprecedented series devoted to Berlioz's major works, Davis again conducts with suave professionalism and lightning-like flashes of insight and revelation...