Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hostility & Achievement. Author White strives for objectivity, but there is no question whose campaign button adorned his lapel. The TV debates were a "disaster" for Nixon. Kennedy's campaign was "brilliant." His coverage of Kennedy is more complete, more successful than his picture of Nixon. Nor was it entirely his fault: Nixon kept to himself, and his campaign staff was hostile to the press. White sums up a prevalent attitude toward the reporters with a quotation from a Nixon staffer: "Stuff the bastards. They're all against Dick anyway. Make them work-we're not going...
...properly sentimental tale about two Virginia youngsters who long to own a wild pony; and The Parent Trap, a movie whose plot should make it thoroughly emetic-it concerns cute identical twins who try to kid their divorced parents into remarrying-but which is consistently delightful, thanks to its button-nosed star, Hayley Mills. Also recommended...
...Parent Trap (Buena Vista) might be expected to create pandemic jaundice among adult viewers, since it concerns the efforts of teen-aged twins to kid their divorced parents into remarrying. Surprisingly, the film is delightful-mostly because of 15-year-old Hayley Mills, the blonde button nose who played the endearing delinquent in Tiger...
...judges. William Harold Cox, who roomed with Eastland at the University of Mississippi law school nearly 40 years ago, has a solid legal background in Jackson, has occasionally served as a circuit judge and has not publicly committed himself on touchy civil rights issues. Yet, just as if a button had been pushed, the N.A.A.C.P. began protesting...
...medias res. If the button-down, scrubbed-looking, youthful Kingston Trio (TIME, July 11) are the undergraduates of big-time U.S. folksinging, the Limeliters are the faculty, and the chairman of the department is 37-year-old Lou Gottlieb, who in 1958 took his doctorate in musicology at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, presenting a thesis consisting of previously unpublished 15th century cyclic masses. On and offstage, Gottlieb continually seems to be wondering if he really exists, drops great polysyllables and 18-carat clichés like in extenso and in medias res, which are woofed into...