Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news conference earlier in the day McCarthy was asked to comment on the effects of this month's elections. He said that he did not anticipate any significant obstruction of the President's legislative program even considering the Republicans' increased strength in both Houses...
Life's 21-in. dwarf, TV, is parodied in the second playlet, and what might be merely predictable is so superbly done that it provides porcupine-quilled social comment. The third playlet is simple and startling. A huge papier-mache Mother Hubbard doll intones a litany of all the beauties of the motel room that she owns, conjuring up memories of the garish comic horrors of the journey through a Sahara of motels in Nabokov's Lolita. Into this room tromp a man (Conrad Fowkes) and a woman (James Barbosa) looking like plaster casts with comic-strip blow...
...signed the cards, but that BGMA president, Robert Richardson, never returned them. Some of the B & G workers at last night's meetings said that Richardson had become interested in having the International Union of Electrical Workers named as the B & G bargaining agent. Richardson himself was unavailable for comment last night...
...pointedly avoided any commitment to the proposal, insisting that he would save his specific recommendations until December, when the President's Commission on the Draft will release its report. "It would be tactless of me to comment before they report," he explained...
...name DeSalvo as the Strangler because they have nothing to offer in evidence but his uncorroborated statement. Under rules established by the Supreme Court in recent cases, the tape recording would not be regarded as a valid confession. The police, meanwhile, never discuss the case, and the only official comment comes in the form of a carefully antiseptic statement from Massachusetts' Attorney General Ed Brooke: "I have no evidence at the present time that would justify making a charge against an individual or any individuals in connection with the Boston Strangler case...