Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...labeled Carter "a yellow-pad President" and suggested that while the President "was saying the right things, I'm not sure he can make them happen." Politics, Baker believes, is results, though even he sometimes pauses to make a few notes. They are always brief enough to go on the backs of envelopes...
...Rosalynn was out of town as they rolled up to the gate in his and her studio limousines, but swinging Son Chip happened to be on hand. "I see you're doing your part for the energy crisis," chided Chip, who then led his guests on a brief tour and joined them for a hand-in-hand photograph on the White House lawn. What a nice souvenir, especially for the movie's publicity mavens...
...first of two performances last week, an electrical failure plunged the music tent into blackness at the finale, prompting a brief, wild surmise that Bess had succeeded.) Death, she sings to his departed spirit, is the "door from which you will never escape...
...championship fight; of a heart attack; in Livingston, NJ. Cigar in hand, Galento would greet each bout with the boast: "I'll moider da bum." In 15 years as a professional, he "moidered" his opponent 72% of the time before hanging up his gloves in 1944. In a brief fling at acting in the 1950s, Galento appeared with Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront...
...images into each other. It's not the editor's-fault; Badham just never bothered to devise a cutting style, so special effects pop out at you mechanically, unsurprisingly, without the right build-up, like creaky hobgoblins in a decomposing funhouse. And because his close-ups are so brief and his cutting so nervous, we're never close to any character for long enough to build up any identification. The movie is thoroughly uninvolving...