Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy hearings produced some dramatic and grisly theater. The Zapruder film, the pathologists, the conspiracy theorists-everyone and everything was there in the Cannon House Office Building to recall the agony of that day in Dallas...
What must have been going through that handsome head as John Connally sat in the Cannon Office Building last week remembering the murder of John Kennedy? So many memories and regrets. So near for so many years to the power he sought, yet still so far away. Sitting there in the very building where he had first entered national politics 39 years ago as an aide to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. A President still in search of portfolio...
Human institutions were poorly equipped to cope with the plague, or with man-made anguish like the Hundred Years' War. It lasted from 1337 well into the 15th century, mainly because knights in armor could lay waste to a countryside, but, lacking siege cannon, could not usually capture a strongly defended walled town. There was a more fundamental reason for perpetual war, however. As Tuchman says of the English, "Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation." Fighting was supposed to be conducted according to the chivalric...
...subdued. Tehran was tense and quiet. The Club Discotheque, normally a place of frenzied activity for Iran's newly rich upper middle class, was shuttered. Hotels and restaurants decreed a four-day prohibition of alcoholic beverages. Television stations broadcast readings from the Koran and Islamic sermons in place of Cannon and Police Story...
Then there are the familiar, likable actors: the recently-revived Dyan Cannon (better than ever these days) as Clouseau's tag-along; the smooth, stylishly resonant Robert Webber (also not around in the last few years and also better than ever) as the heavy; and Herbert Lom, in the best of his Inspector Dreyfuss portrayals. There was too much of Lom in Strikes Again, and Edwards directed him badly, but here he's wired to short-circuit on sight of Clouseau, toppling over in hilarious catatonia...