Word: bowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impromptu debate before the press, Moretti cried: "What are you, the only holy man around? What do you have, a little statue of yourself you bow down to every night?" Privately Moretti joked: "If I had one wish, I'd want to meet every Democrat in this state between now and the primary. If I had a second wish, I'd want Jerry Brown to meet them...
Despite the First Lady's progress, her illness inevitably stirred speculation about her husband's plans for 1976. "He is greatly influenced by his family," says a presidential adviser who believes that Ford would bow out if his wife was not well. The leading contender for the G.O.P. nomination would then be Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller, a dismaying prospect for Democrats, who think he would be the toughest man to beat. Rocky is already filling in for the President at speaking engagements in Utah and California. But Ford will soon join him on the hustings. This week...
Rigid Control. In a sense, both Betty Ford and Pat Nixon were veterans. Not so the younger, more fragile blonde who last week sat silently in the Heritage Room of Boston's Parker House and watched her husband bow out of the 1976 presidential contest. Joan Kennedy, demonstrating the rigid control expected of political wives in America -especially Kennedy wives-stayed calm and clear-eyed, her gaze focused on a point near her husband, her hands folded demurely in her lap. She remained all but immobile when her husband said that he would not subject his family...
...axis of his own mad self. Eventually, obsession invades reality. He walks to the end of a real village street, cannot turn, and falls in a paralytic fit. Thus does Nabokov poke dignified fun at himself. The novel is wholly lighthearted, a sunny absurdity that offers a mocking bow to the author's own worst possibilities, unfollowed bad impulses, and uncracked weak spots. His capering in Russian and French seems more playful than usual, and less pointedly designed to exclude readers so boorish as not to have been born Russian...
...Bow Incident (1943). Excellent drama about mob rule. With Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes and Anthony Quinn...