Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Irked not only by the civil rights talkathon but also by delaying action in congressional committees on eight major appropriations bills, Senators eager to return home for campaigning grew increasingly restive. Lyndon Johnson had, after all, predicted last year that the session would end before July. By week's end, however, the log jam began to ease as budget requests for the District of Columbia and for new military construction passed the House and another for public works emerged from a House committee...
That sort of headline hugging makes it tough on the average starlet who is eager enough for the spotlight but doesn't care to go quite that far to attract it. And so Tanya Lopert, girl starlet and daughter of a United Artists vice president, had to be content with something less spectacular but considerably more ladylike. With Daddy in tow, Tanya made her big entrance at a party at the Palazzo Ca' Rezzonico, dressed in a spangled magenta mini-gown slit to the thigh...
Everybody is supposedly eager to cheat the Government on his tax return. That impression is reinforced by the occasionally epic search of U.S. business for tax loopholes-which may be ethically debatable but are, by definition, not illegal. In fact, the American is a model taxpayer, and was so even before Internal Revenue installed its formidable, automated data-processing system known as "the Machine." The Government last year indicted fewer than 2,000 out of 102.5 million taxpayers for fraud. Even the most pessimistic estimate of unreported income-$26 billion a year-suggests that more than 95% of all income...
...will be some time before Valenti succeeds in dousing Hollywood with a good helping of "soul juice"-if he succeeds at all-but he is such an excessively eager fellow that his mere presence has given Hollywood a lift. Says he: "I came to this job not misshapen by old ideas and old prejudices. I don't know what's 'impossible' to do, and so I go ahead and try to do it. Will it work? I don't know, but I'm damn sure going to give it a whirl...
Given the presence of a Cockney Casanova, Alfie's plot predictably unreels more like a score card than a scenario. Among the standard items is the eager middle-aged nymph (Shelley Winters) who entertains Alfie in a big bath tub. One of the more pathetic entries is the hen-shaped wife of a sick friend-they take char together, and then Alfie makes a grab at the old girl, just to "round off the tea nicely." And then there is the nubile nurse (Shirley Anne Field)-while Alfie is recuperating from overexertion in a TB sanatorium, she comes round...