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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proliferating group of Democrats who would like to win their party's presidential nomination, conservative Congressman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas has probably been the most coy. While keen for a crack at the nomination, he has consistently feigned indifference. Last week for the first time Mills came right out and admitted that he is indeed a candidate. In letters to Wisconsin and Nebraska election officials, Mills said that he could not "in good conscience" ask that his name be left off primary ballots in those states. He added, however, that he does not plan to campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL BRIEFS: Mills Comes Out | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

Brooke played it coy. "As a Republican, I would be honored" by the offer, he told the press after a speech in Lynn. This statement was immediately interpreted to mean that Brooke would accept the nomination...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Void In Spades-II | 2/8/1972 | See Source »

Answer: Harry Kellerman is the villain of a mystery-comedy. The questioner in the coy, interminable title of this film is Georgie Soloway (Dustin Hoffman). The mystery is why it should be called a comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Georgie Boy | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...some accommodation for him. He got the news shortly after the decision in December. The CRIMSON broke the story of the department's vote five days before Kissinger's tenure was scheduled to lapse, and his formal resignation came the following day. Queried about the CRIMSON report, he played coy and said, "This is a matter for the Govern-ment department and I would not know. I just resigned...

Author: By David Landan, | Title: Kissinger | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...bride living in a lonely cottage on a promontory where sea, earth and air come together, who becomes the focus of Hermic's discoveries, is presented with the necessary elusiveness of a dream (partly as a result of Mulligan's treatment of Herman Raucher's often underwritten and coy screenplay). But, because of the realistic, often comic development of the rest of the film, her character calls forth audience frustration rather than the desired sense of intrigue. Introduced in two slow motion sequences, she is surrounded by a lyricism that is forced and contrived. Throughout the middle of the film...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Movies Memory Tripping | 5/11/1971 | See Source »

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