Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside, as these melodic strains were filling the cool evening, there was the jarring counterpoint of a growing political crisis. From Capitol Hill to Foggy Bottom, Congressmen, bureaucrats, journalists and their groupies hovered in offices near phones for new fragments from the Bert Lance affair...
...stated that the Federal Criminal Office agreed to "No 5." After the government released the kidnapers' letter, puzzled West Germans learned that the number referred to a specific demand of the terrorists. Item No. 5 was that the government publish the letter, which concluded with a cool insult: "We are assuming that Schmidt will make every effort to clarify his relationship with this fat magnate of the cream of national industry...
Most of those well-known characters-the real-life participants in Watergate-were not talking about the series. Some of them, like H.R. Haldeman, portrayed by Robert Vaughn with cool viciousness, are now in prison. Surprisingly, one who comes to Haldeman's defense is Herb Klein, communications director for 5½ years in the Nixon White House, who eventually quit as the Watergate investigations were growing. Says he: "The overcentered power of Haldeman is inaccurate. He's a tough guy who ran a tight ship, but he wasn't a Nazi dictator." The fictional Klein character...
...Before Sandy could even "Arf," Daddy would be on the scene in his 200-foot yacht, puffing on a dark Havana as he watched Punjab and the Asp contrive a properly nasty comicstrip zoom for the malefactors. It was a fun little game, and Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion that he was enjoying the hell out of the whole show. Then he'd weigh anchor and take everybody over to South Africa to watch the natives yank a few more million out of his diamond mines. A real character, that Daddy...
...just last year, when he had to talk about a team others picked to finish first, he frowned. Nah, being the frontrunner, that ain't for Joe. Not his style, you know what I mean. Best to lay low, you see, play it cool for a while, and then sneak up on everyone around October...