Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sardonic Metaphor. That is just the trouble. As played, deftly, by Beatty, George is an affable con man who goes no deeper than his own hypocrisy. The reason, presumably, for setting the movie in 1968 is to groom George, the last shabby survivor of the age of grooviness, into a sardonic metaphor. There are many references to the Nixon election, and at times the movie appears to be attempting a delineation of the moral neutrality that could produce a Nixon and a Watergate...
...public service commission last week ordered Consolidated Edison Co. to reduce charges on all-electric homes by anywhere from $50 to $70 a year. The ruling climaxed a year-long rate protest led by Mrs. Christina Jackson of Hartsdale, N.Y. Aghast at the steady rise in her Con Ed bills-they have risen from $56 a month in 1969 to $252, even though she has cut back power consumption sharply-Mrs. Jackson recruited some 4,000 equally pained suburbanites into an active lobby. She cheered last week's decision as "a victory for the small man." In fact...
...Clemente "while daring greatly." Ford's inaugural speech, what he called "just a little straight talk among friends," is just as patronizingly obsequious as his predecessor's speeches. Again, the only interesting aspects are his Freudian slips: he tells us he comes to the Presidency "with full con...confidence," an ironic piece of self-criticism, and he also praises Nixon, the great man "who brought pee-eace to millions" in a broken voice that reflects either tear-jerking sentimentality or an uncharacteristic inability to tell...
...increase in the works, would have to increase its rate yet an additional 6% if the Ford program is adopted. The Florida Power Corp. estimates an average monthly increase of $5 for residential customers, many of whom are retirees living on relatively fixed incomes. And New York's Con Edison faces the unpleasant prospect of translating a $200 million extra oil-bill burden into a 7.5% rate increase for its customers-who are already paying the company 42% more a month than a year...
...award from the Association of American Trial Lawyers. Encouraged by his success, Mosiello recently embarked on his most ambitious prison enterprise: New Vista, a nonprofit broadcasting corporation that will market radio talk shows on crime and prisons, publish a companion magazine and channel its income into con-created programs for juvenile offenders...