Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Humphrey, who for years was considered the third Senator from Wisconsin. At a beer-and-pizza session with union members in Beloit, Udall said: "If you're for Humphrey, maybe the best thing to do is vote for Udall-the best thing you can do is keep a bunch of us alive...
...Rated Life. The result is a script that is merely and rather pointlessly anecdotal. It is eager to please in a way that its subject never was. It tries to turn his circle of friends-John Barrymore and the rest -into a bunch of good ol' boys, instead of showing them for what they were: the most viciously self-destructive circle of drunks in Hollywood history, a darkly tragic group. Worse, the film falsifies many of the known facts about Fields in an attempt to create a conventional rags-to-riches show-biz saga. Even Steiger finally goes soft...
...seems a long time ago-except perhaps for Hubert Humphrey. Had it not been for the chaos in Chicago, which convinced many TV watchers that the Democratic Party was run by a bunch of radicals, H.H.H. just might have edged out Richard Nixon for the presidency...
...When we first arrived in Moscow, everything struck me as a dull gray," Schecter says. He remembers being depressed by "the wedding cake architecture, where you have these big flank wings and one big tower in the middle. A bunch of these buildings from the Stalin era still remain around Moscow." When the Schecters first arrived, the government put them up in a hotel. They remained in these cramped quarters for several months, until the government provided them with an apartment in Yugozapad, a suburb of Moscow...
...long ago Abravanel received a call from some citizens of Dillon, Mont., inviting him to perform there. "We're just a bunch of cowboys," he was told. "Play anything you want." Replied Abravanel: "I think you deserve the best." Dillon was treated to Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. After the first movement there was an ovation. Abravanel explained that the symphony had four movements, so would the audience please save the applause until the end. The audience obediently counted; unfortunately, there was only a slight pause between the third and fourth movements, so that when the symphony crescendoed...