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...doubt about it," the Senator said when he came out 20 minutes later. "It's a missile-handling facility, complete with derricks and tracks for easy movement. We were told that we wouldn't be allowed to ask questions, and they refused to show us one bunker. But we know what's inside. There's nothing there right now, but the complex has the capability of being expanded into a major missile facility. We knew what it was the minute we went inside...
...depressive: "Here I am 39 years old, and my hero is still Holden Caulfield." At the top of the seventh inning, the Duke is working on a no-hitter, but he has only one pitch left in his eroded repertory: a low slider. As he muses, in Archie Bunker fashion, on how much he detests the ethnic and racial back grounds of the batters he must face, he not only loses his no-hitter but gradually loads the bases...
...House, and not everyone found it palatable. "We'd never stand for this sort of audience in our business," said Comedian Mike Yarwood, one of whose specialties is impersonating Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Scriptwriter Johnny Speight, who created the British model for America's Archie Bunker, thought that the broadcast from the Commons "has the making of a good comedy series." Some disagreed. A BBC spokesman admitted that several peeved listeners had called in to ask what had happened to Listen with Mother, the regular program that had been pre-empted for the occasion...
...been published in hard cover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book was meant to be a scathing indictment of modern art in general and of American painting and its social milieu in particular. Instead, it emerges as a curious document of frustration: the dandy as Archie Bunker...
...born with the war, so Vietnam would look very strange to me without barbed wires, tanks and shells. You get used to the want though. I tell people here about the time we lived in a bunker for a week, and they don't know how we stood it. But the killing was so random that you never really expected anything to happen. You could sleep and be blown up and never know...