Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter in fact had received no such guarantee, and the American people soon realized that he had embarked on the most politically hazardous trip of his presidential career. Riding with him on Air Force One could have been his own political future. Said the Herald: "His willingness to bet the farm in 1979 could well send him back to it after...
Mork & Mindy seems an unlikely bet for such exaltation: the program is fundamentally a retread of such tired sitcoms as My Favorite Martian and Bewitched. It tells the story of Mork (Williams), an alien eggplanted, so to speak, from the planet Ork, who settles in Boulder, Colo., with a winsome ingenue, Mindy (Pam Dawber). The secret of the program's runaway success is Williams. He is not only an inspired clown but also a perfect entertainer for TV's mass audience. Mork has the innocence and enthusiasm of a toddler discovering the world. But he is one toddler...
...would withdraw. But in capitals around the world there were shudders at the ominous global implications if the war were not contained and short-lived, if it were to provoke direct Soviet intervention or retaliation on behalf of their Vietnamese client. It was a heyday for alarmists: "I would bet that it won't happen?but we are very much in danger of a third world war. It could be starting at this moment," warned New York Senator Daniel Moynihan. Administration advisers and military strategists were less worried, but no one was prepared to deny that the world's newest...
...ironic bemusement about rock stardom, both its perks ("Just because we're in a group you think we're stinking rich/ 'N' we all got model girls shedding every stitch") and its permanence ("I'll get out my money and make a bet/ That I'll be seeing you down the launderette"). A fever-blister rocker called Safe European Home concerns the lads' attempts to seek out some brothers in Jamaica, where "every white face is an invitation to robbery" and "Natty Dread drinks at the Sheraton Hotel...
...there is a kindred spirit who mirror's Crews' fear and passion, it is another actor, Robert Blake. In "Television's Junkyard Dog," Blake confesses a Freudian nightmare that might serve as an episode on his TV series, Baretta. "I have a dream, and I bet I have it once a week," he tells the author. "Wherever I am, what ever I'm doing, I'm naked. And I can't get no clothes on. Sometimes I'm at the airport and sometimes I'm at school in a hall...