Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dracula is the definitive male chauvinist pig. He wants to possess," says George Hamilton, who plays the sanguineous count in the movie Love at First Bite. In this comic version of Bram Stoker's 1897 play, Dracula turns up in Manhattan, where he gets mugged on the street, assaulted by an admiring female on the subway and caught in a brownout. Enough, one might say, to make a count go batty...
...hearing last week, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal said that the Steiger amendment "should be called the Millionaires' Relief Act of 1978," a view shared by AFL-CIO President George Meany and other labor leaders. That did not especially please the six Senators present, half of whom can count their net worth in seven figures.- The most heated exchanges came when Republican Senator Bob Pack wood of Oregon (net worth: $100,000) accused both Blumenthal and Carter of "demagogu-ery." Whereupon Blumenthal, himself a stock-option millionaire from his Bendix Corp. days, retorted, "This isn't demagoguery...
...Manhattan's historic Roseland, a gaudy dance palace right out of the '20s, Count Basie, 73, held up the swing end of things with butter-smooth melodies and brassy punctuation. The crowd, decked out in its spikiest heels and slinkiest skirts, danced beneath a huge electric American flag, which blinked red, white and blue to Basie's beat. Meanwhile, Dizzy Gillespie, 60, was on hand at Avery Fisher Hall, with his mischievously cherubic grin, his horn angled rakishly at the sky to let fly with Manteca, one of his Latin favorites...
Nowadays, in many major newspapers, a Washington columnist can't even count on appearing regularly. Michael Gartner, editor of the Des Moines Register, subscribes to "a passel of them" and pays but $25 a week for Kraft, $20 apiece for Broder, George F. Will and Mary McGrory. He does not always run the columns he receives and often prints only three or four of their "most important paragraphs...
...point I was jabbed from dismay by the outburst of jubilation from young Dick Donahue, who yelped, "He's got them! Daley made them go first. He's still holding back ... watch him play his hand now." I was baffled, they were elated. But they knew the counting game better than I, and as if in response to Donahue's yelp, the ticker, having stuttered along for several minutes with other results, announced: "With the last precincts of Cook County now in, Senator Kennedy has won a lead of 8,000 votes to carry Illinois...