Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except that this time the victim survived. There would be no lying in state, no funeral train, no mournful services for the nation to attend by television. Like Tom Sawyer at his own funeral, Alabama's George Corley Wallace could savor both obsequies and survival. The morning after the shooting last week in a Maryland shopping center, Wallace, half-paralyzed, could lie in his hospital bed and feistily ask an aide: "Whatja got me scheduled for today?" The next day he would read the news of his primary triumphs in Maryland and Michigan...
...that 41% of Princeton's class of 1962 have tried drugs, or that 24% have tried extramarital sex-all deductions confirmed in a ten-years-later booklet just issued by the class. Who would imagine, though, that the average member of the class of 1962 is able to attend only 0.5 Tiger football games a year...
...wealthy nations that "the environment is indivisible" and is not the exclusive concern of the rich. With the poor, he argued that they had different kinds of problems: overcrowded cities, polluted water, and exhausted farm lands. So far, more than 100 U.N. members-including China-have agreed to attend the conference, with about 80 of them contributing reports on their own environmental efforts...
Uncle Antoine mostly drinks and gossips with his cronies while his wife and his clerk attend to the business. It is the Christmas season, Benoit conducts a flirtation with a young salesgirl, and there is promise of festivity. Villagers gather in front of the store to watch the display window being ceremonially unveiled as if it held half the world's treasure. It seems, at first, an innocent time...
...resolution of the film's main action. A distinguished middle-aged lawyer is unable to consummate his second marriage to a skittish child-wife--who has meanwhile fallen in love with the lawyer's church-studying stepson. At a house party which the three other love pairs attend also, the wife and the stepson, by a variety of plot and thematic clevernesses, end up in the same bed. The young couple make their exit in the lawyer's carriage, while he looks on and does nothing. The wife's virginal white veil flutters to the ground in the grey light...