Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...divide Canada" in the election campaign-a reference to the effort by some Tories to capitalize on anti-Quebec feelings generated among English-speaking voters. But Trudeau's charge was so ill-timed and ill-tempered that it left some of his party colleagues shaking their heads in dismay. Stanfield, normally a dull public speaker, shone by comparison. When a fellow Tory heckled Trudeau about trying to change his image, Stanfield interjected with a sly allusion to government statistics on unemployment: "Oh, he's the same Prime Minister-seasonally adjusted." Even Trudeau had to chuckle at that...
...movie star ought to have her hands and feet stuck into concrete. So decided Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, picking Ali as the 158th celebrity to get the concrete treatment outside its doorway (the last person so honored was Gene Kelly in 1969). To her dismay, Ali found the site crowded not only with fans but with demonstrators, who greeted the heroine of Love Story with rude placards. Urged one: LET US GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. ALI MACGRAW, WHO ARE YOU!! Ali knelt anyway, pressed her extremities into the mush, also inscribed, "Peace & Love, Ali MacGraw...
...executive, a Baltimoron whose morals are romantically updated in the course of the film. Armbruster flies to Italy to claim the body of his father the conglomerate chief, who had driven off a cliff during his annual convalescence at a resort south of Naples. But Wendell learns, to his dismay, that his nearly seventy-year-old father had led a ten-summer secret Amalfi life and died intertwined with Kate Piggott, mother of Pamela Piggott (Juliet Mills)--a British "bird" who's come to bury Mummy...
...Julie Andrews brand of antiseptic woman. This year's Mary is even a little naughty. On one recent show she kissed a boy friend (Jerry Van Dyke) rather soulfully while in the newsroom. On another she spent the night at some fellow's pad, to the vocal dismay of her mother (Nanette Fabray). Judging from this season's shows, the new chemistry may provide just the pick-me-up a weary viewer needs...
...chilling case of casual violence, but peaceful Somerset County had an extra reason for dismay. Although the deadly encounter was between two out-of-state transients, Somerset County's 9,000 taxpayers would have to bear the cost of the trial...