Word: digester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine editors protray themselves as gadflies in a gadflydeficient society. To be sure, we are cynical and lax and brimstone fuel-to-be. But I doubt that Journal is going to sting us out of apathy. It's a gadfly, sure, but one that has tried to digest too rich a diet and wound up too heavy to fly very high...
...slow summer TV season. Referring to his farewell speech, Nixon said jocularly: "We got a hell of an audience on August 9, 1974." To ensure that same hell of an audience in May, Frost met with his subject at San Clemente last week to iron out final details and digest the briefing books put together by his staff for the marathon taping sessions scheduled from March 23 to April 20. Under the terms of the $650,000-or-so deal, the ex-President has no control over content or editing and cannot see any of the questions in advance. "Nixon...
...largely on the events of his presidency. Hers will be a more personal memoir, a candid look at her struggle to balance her roles as public figure, wife and mother. No unseemly family rivalry is likely: the double contract with Co-Publishers Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest will yield the two Fords a cool $1 million...
...style of golf reporting as well. He believed in opening a story with a leisurely reflection on the weather and any other aspect of the day's events that struck his fancy. In those years, two rounds were played on the final day of a tournament so Darwin would digest the morning round over a midday meal. Afterwards, he would compose his article while sipping port, always for he did not believe in taking highlights out of sequence. This dignified attitude is transparent in what is considered the most famous line Darwin ever penned. "Then it was time...
TIMES HAVE CHANGED, however, and in The Late Show ulcer-ridden Ira Welles is having trouble learning to digest the new L.A. ambience. He's old, has a bad stomach and a game leg. Besides, no one hires private detectives anymore, unless it's for something screwy like finding a kidnapped cat. This is the first key angle in Robert Benton's script: the once respected and feared detective who's fallen on fallen times. Then there's the other angle: the funny lady who actually does ask him to sleuth down her cat. The woman, Margo Sperling, is played...