Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CONVENTION, Richard Reeves, one of American journalism's best political reproters, captures accurately the crazed freneticism, the Skinner-box-mouse-on-dexedrine atmosphere that prevails at political nominating conventions. Convention is a diary; a journal of the madness, as Reeves runs through Monday to Thursday of not the Republican Convention but the Democratic through Monday to Thursday of not the Republican Convention but the Democratic coronation in New York. Reeves, who recently quit the staff of New York magazine in the wake of the Murdoch coup and who is also a former New York Times reporter, did an astounding amount...
Moore also said that the anticipation of delicious box lunches on the two-and-a-half hour return trip helped the squashers...
With the game deadlocked at 3-3, Cape Cod unveiled a defensive alignment for the third period--four skaters and a man constantly in the penalty box. The impatient Crimson could not capitalize, settling for ineffective bombs from the blue line instead of rockets from the slot...
...cooperation, of the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians realize that they probably could not survive as a nation without close administrative ties to Jordan, perhaps as an autonomous member of the federation that Hussein once suggested (see box). For one thing, in addition to 700,000 Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza, another 1 million live in Jordan itself. Only the poorest, it is predicted, would leave their refugee camps to move to the new state. As a result, instead of taking shots at Hussein, the P.L.O...
...extras and old cars. He never goes out during filming. He is a television addict who keeps logs on programs (his favorite is the latest Upstairs, Downstairs). "At the end of a shooting day," he says, "I'm often so tired you could put me into a black box. And yet, going home to my family seems a kind of intrusion. I have an urge to stay right here at the studio, sleep on a cot and stay with the project...