Word: blind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Democrats: "Realistic help" for the needy, the aged, the blind, the disabled, and legislation to block any effort by the Administration to raise the price of food stamps...
Frankenstein's monster is Peter Boyle (Joe), an actor wonderfully deft at being clumsy. The movie galvanizes just about the time of his appearance. Boyle shows up in, and helps make work, the two sharpest scenes: an encounter with a blind hermit (Gene Hackman, doing a dexterous comic cameo), in which the monster is assaulted by the hermit's well-intentioned blundering; and a brief foray into show biz, in which Frankenstein and his creation put on a fractured vaudeville. Brooks is always at his best making fun of the delicious stupidities of popular entertainment (recall Springtime...
ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR. A singularly jovial farce. Three suburban British couples party together on three successive Christmas Eves, and the audience gets blind drunk on laughter...
...Assessing the conference, Italian Premier Aldo Moro said that "the Europe convened here in Paris is a Europe whose mechanisms do not yet function properly. But it exists, and realizes its duty to exist, for itself and for the rest of the world. What prevails is not a blind optimism, but a confidence which is nourished on realism." Giscard called it the "last European summit-or the first of the regular European Councils." He added: "The European summit is dead. Long live the European Council...
During the conversation, Hughes not so tactfully referred to his former top aide, Robert A. Maheu, as "a no-good son of a bitch who stole me blind." The phone call helped send Irving to prison-and Maheu to court with a $17 million suit against Hughes for slander. After nearly three years of legal wrangling, a six-person jury in Los Angeles awarded Maheu $2.8 million in damages, to be paid by the Hughes-owned Summa Corporation. "Hughes used to tell me that "there isn't a man I can't buy or destroy,' " recalled Maheu...