Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter's organizers have been sniffing around. NBC was in town last week nibblnig at a couple of the coffee drinkers. CBS and Bob Dole cannot be far behind. This about as middle as you can get. And Walter Cronkite really is missed when he disappears from the TV screen and goes off to sail and play tennis...
...health ever. The pitching staff has not performed beyond anyone's expectations, but neither have they backed down. New faces like Steve Renko have been struggling for recognition right from February 15, and they have produced better than even Earl Weaver could have expected. Last year's pitching blanks--Bob Sprowl, John LaRose, Andy Hassler--were tossed into more pressure than even Don Zimmer's surgeon could imagine, having to face the Yankees, the Yankees, and the Yankees as the Red Sox lost a game a day for a month and Bill Lee smirked in the bullpen, reading riddles from...
Some officials tried to relieve the pressure with gallows humor. Members of the Agriculture Department sent out invitations for a 51st birthday celebration, saying that "the party will be either for Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, or it will be for Bob Bergland." It turned out to be the former: Bergland kept his job. (So did another Cabinet member who had been widely rumored to be due for replacement, Secretary of Commerce Juanita Kreps.) On Capitol Hill, when Blumenthal returned from a break during a hearing before the House Budget Committee, a reporter cracked: "At least you came back." Replied...
John Paul Austin. Rowed on the U.S. Olympic crew in 1936. Graduated from Harvard Law. Decorated as a World War II Navy lieutenant commander. Caught the eye of legendary Coca-Cola Chairman Bob Woodruff, who recruited and groomed him. Became chief in 1966. Earns in the high six figures. Is a buddy of fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter. Taught himself passable Japanese. Works in an Atlanta eyrie among Oriental antiques and photos of his handsome wife. Spends more than half his time traveling, largely to the 135 countries where Coke does business. Has a rather radical idea: the whole world...
When Kaufman strays from the book, he gets into trouble. The female characters (well played by Karen Allen and Linda Manz) are blurred into ambiguity, seem ingly to create an idle air of mystery. By adding portentous references to the Kennedy assassination and the rise of Bob Dylan, Kaufman adds a little gratuitous sociology. The occasional stylization of the movie's violence is equally jarring: the gang members are at times so shrouded by theatrical smoke and shadow that they start to look like the pod people in Kauf man's Invasion of the Body Snatchers...