Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Once it breaks, they'll all head back here, and it is going to lead to all sorts of confusion," City Councilor Walter Sullivan said yesterday...
...wise men wander into a manger, but it's the wrong one--no haloed Virgin Mary greets them in the straw; Terry Jones's familiar crone voice--a Python staple from "Penguin on the Telly" on down--bursts any reverential bubble, and we're back in the begrimed world of most Monty Python comedies...
...ziggurat." As a reminder that he was there too, Yeager told reporters he did not want to be an astronaut because they did no real flying. He then rubbed it in by saying that "a monkey's gonna make the first flight." Shepard, Glenn and company bucked back, demanding and getting concessions like an override control stick and windows in the capsule. The men had been selected for their experience, superb physical conditioning and ability to stand psychological stress. What the groundlings had not anticipated was commensurate egos...
...right stuff. But he wrote like a hit man. "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" was a surprise attack on the genteel New Yorker magazine and its shy, venerated editor, William Shawn. A shocked cultural establishment struck back. An outraged Joseph Alsop and E.B. White called Wolfe's piece brutal, misleading and irresponsible. Richard Goodwin sent a bolt from the White House. "I didn't think I'd survive," says Wolfe, "but it taught me a lesson. You can be denounced from the heavens...
Love for Lydia (Sept. 23, PBS). Fluff up the cushions and settle back into the easy chair. It is time for another British soap opera from Masterpiece Theater. Appropriately, this sad tale of the dangers of love, taken from a novel by the late H.E. Bates, begins its run on the first day of autumn and continues through the sea son, ending Dec. 9. Lydia Aspen (Mel Martin) is a beautiful young heiress who comes to Aspen House on the death of her father in 1929. Three middle-class youths from the town, a factory center in the Midlands, fall...