Word: boot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commercial is a hilarious takeoff on the scene from the movie in which the bandits kidnap a young couple. In this case, the unsuspecting Pontiac salesman merrily delivers his pitch-again to a banjo score-while Clyde & Co. barrel down the road with him. At length, they boot him out. Says the salesman, unperturbed: "How are you going to finance it?" Bonnie mutters sullenly: "Finance it, Clyde." Clyde tosses out a satchel of money and drives off, while the salesman, ever the honest fellow, chases them into the fadeout, protesting valiantly that he has been overpaid. The possibilities are enormous...
...watching Tom Jones; I liked the happy emergence of the killer in him whenever someone challenged him. His only contented moments in the middle acts came when faced by the blood-thirsty crowd--out comes the sword from the boot and Jones walks calmly in for the kill. Though he has a tendency to lapse into whining Burtonisms, Jones dominated the play: no mean feat considering the chaos with which Babe surrounds...
...Manerud's hurried boot was wide by a foot, and by twelve inches the Crimson squeaked through with its only post season bowl title in Harvard's football history
Prime mover behind Atlanta's "oneman urban-renewal plan" is Architect John Portman, 43, who has won hometown honors, architectural awards-and become a millionaire to boot-by insisting that he be both promoter and part owner as well as designer for all of Peachtree Center. Making himself his own client is the only way, Portman has found, to retain "the authority to see that the project is carried out properly and not botched along the way." In his multiple role, he has seen to it that the buildings are a far cry from the run-of-the-drafting...
...years. Both have been pronounced politically dead, Nixon after signing his own burial order at his bitter 1962 press conference ("You won't have Nixon to kick around any more"), Rockefeller after being divorced from a middle-aged wife and marrying a divorcee-and raising state taxes to boot. Both have reemerged, old pros in a youth-happy age, miraculously well-preserved politically in the formaldehyde of ambition and determination...