Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frequent confusion over parliamentary rules of order drove one observer to comment, "Nobody except the president and his cronies knows what's going on here...
...first comment on the capture, Secretary of State Dean Rusk called it "a matter of the utmost gravity." Later, he termed...
Meeting with a group of baseball luminaries in the White House last week, Lyndon Johnson accepted a bat from Boston Red Sox Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, then clowned it up for photographers by faking a bunt. The action drew a telling comment from the American League batting champion. "You're too big to be a hunter," Yastrzemski chided the President. "You have to hit home runs...
...Angeles' Television City, as the Smothers brothers do battle with the men from CBS's program-practices department-otherwise known as the censors. Ever since the brothers started their Sunday-evening variety series a year ago, they have been pressing for satire with a strong social comment or, as they describe it, "put-ons with a point." Very often the points are too cutting for the network and it insists on doing some cutting of its own. Dickie is understanding about it, but Tommy is outraged. In one of his frequent debates with network biggies, Tommy growled: "Dick...
...June Steel, of U.C.L.A., the camera roams for a leisurely 21 minutes over an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum by Sculptor Edward Kienholz (TIME, April 8, 1966). Then an off-camera interviewer deftly questions a series of museumgoers, whose reactions are even more of a social comment than the artist's work. A pair of sclerotic city elders label the show disgusting; an appreciative young Negro in a golfing hat sizes up the exhibit as "it's, like...