Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practices and thereby strengthen the resignation demands. Ultimately, the decision on Lance's fate still remained with the President. If the unlikely result of the hearings is to exonerate Lance completely, Jimmy Carter could joyously return to his earlier "I'm proud of you Bert" position and break out the grins. In fact, the committee's verdict on Lance is likely to be mixed. So the possibility remains that Lance, claiming to feel personally vindicated, could yet decide on his own to resign. Whether or not Lance stays, jumps, or is pushed by Carter or the committee...
...questionable musical taste were associated with him, Stokowski's positive progressive instinct surfaced steadily and surely. To Stokowski the sound an orchestra produced and the reaction it drew from an audience were more important than anything else in a concert. If this necessitated a breach in propriety or break from formal performance practice, he sanctioned it. Stokowski conducted without a baton, and partly because of that was considered one of the most difficult conductors to follow. He relied in its stead upon subtle gestures and facial expressions to produce the desired results. Stokowski allowed himself to get carried away...
...Kennedy ever personally ordered political assassinations abroad, as the show has it. The miniseries has the Washington Post discovering malfeasance long before the Watergate breakin; it did not. The video version of the burglary by White House plumbers of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist becomes a break-in at a St. Louis courthouse; instead of psychiatric records, the squad is after police records. The fictional Lyndon Johnson orders the CIA to carry out an illegal hunt for any Nixonian dirty laundry before the 1968 elections. So far as is known, Johnson did no such thing...
...month. Erik Estrada stars as a motorcycle cop named Poncherello ("Ponch" to friends) who bears an all too obvious resemblance to both Baretta and the Fonz. For an hour, he and his partner (Larry Wilcox) ride the Los Angeles freeways arresting or aiding motorists. Occasionally they take a break to bicker with their strident commanding sergeant (Robert Pine) or flirt with pretty girls...
...stronger." His destination, he said, was "east of the sun and west of the moon." That turned out to be his home in Oxon Hill, Md., where he had a long-awaited reunion with his five children. Will Liddy, who has staunchly refused to talk about Watergate, now break his silence? Publishers are said to be offering as much as $300,000 for his story, but he is silent even about their offers. His wife, however, has said...