Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dick Button, former U.S. and Olympic Champion, will serve as Master of Ceremonies for the program, in addition, many Boston area skaters will also participate in the benefit...
...Safe Place concerns the soggy daydreams of a rich little hippie who is known alternately as Susan and Noah (Tuesday Weld). S/N has a button-down suitor (Philip Proctor), a lover named Mitch (Jack Nicholson) who may or may not have recently murdered his wife, and an unhappy penchant for remembering an old Jewish magician (Orson Welles) who told her parables one day long ago in Central Park. Jaglom spends most of his time cutting abruptly back and forth between scenes of fantasy and reality with a technique that is about as experimental as your cousin's old Chemcraft...
...approached in the sordid lounge of the famed Alcron Hotel by a portly, fortyish fellow who sported a handsome toothbrush mustache and a button-down Oxford-cloth shirt. He plumped himself down in an overstuffed armchair next to me. After ordering scotch with water "but no ice," he introduced himself as "Roger Smith, a professor of social sciences." He noted that he was an American scholar studying the aftereffects of the "Prague Spring" and the Soviet invasion. With a heavy Slavic accent, he lapsed for several minutes into part sociological jargon, part hilariously outdated American slang, last heard...
From '68 I have a row of buttons on my bulletin board--McCarthy, Kennedy and Humphrey. In '69 I wore a "Carmichael" button and went house to house with the candidate individually meeting every voter in the congressional district. The incumbent never left Washington and stayed there in November with 66 per cent of the vote. The last button on my bulletin board says "Goodell...
Somewhere in between '64 and '68 I picked up a "Keep Chet Kowal" button. Kowal, our mayor, committed suicide shortly after a major scandal and shortly before the election. But being my pick, of course, the suicide attempt failed...