Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with an optimistic attitude perhaps the differences can be straightened out in face-to-face, candid discussion this spring that would demand compromise from both sides. In that setting, an assistant coach, agreed upon by both parties, could be accepted as a mediating force...
...season an earthquake transforms an Acapulco resort into an island rocked by storms. Both amenities and necessities swiftly disappear. As Dennis' caricatures try to cope with life in the raw, long-distance television cameras grind away from the shore, picking up every grisly move. The show, a modified Candid Camera, grows more and more popular as the castaways become more and more degraded. But the author, like the cameras, does not know when to stop. The only palatable personality in Dennis' dreary bunch is a middle-aged alcoholic, and she has the sense to drink her way through...
...There had been so much trouble on the set of Scott's new movie that Director John Huston had resigned and an actress had been fired. Then there was the star's legendary capacity for booze, brawls and belligerence. Would he be in the mood for calm, candid talk? As a rule, said Cronin, "Scott does not look for a fight, but things build up in him or around him until something has to give...
During the sessions, Scott was candid and articulate, though Cronin sensed that "everyone on the set was a little afraid of him." There was an occasional beer (with a vodka chaser), but nothing more. The cussedness? "The Spanish crew was crazy about him, and he treated them as fellow workers. He played cards and chess with them...
...denied direct access not only to the President himself but to the individual who is the principal architect of our war policy in Indochina." The clash over executive privilege is a recurring and complex one. The Senate has a right to review U.S. foreign policy: yet a President needs candid advice from his aides, which he is unlikely to get if each aide knows that he may be publicly grilled on what he tells the President...