Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end new details of the incident began to circulate. According to informed East European sources, Chiang Ch'ing had tried, even before the death of Mao, to persuade Peking Regional Military Commander Ch'en Hsi-lien to help her organize a coup d'etat, but Ch'en went and informed Hua of the danger. Another story from Peking claimed that Mao's scheming widow had even launched an abortive attempt to assassinate Hua. Whether these rumors are true, or simply lies leaked by the moderates to justify a pre-emptive move...
Other humorists are less nostalgic -and more bountiful. They have found small seams of giddy gold in Carter's racy Playboy interview, Earl Butz's scurrilous remark, Ford's East European gaffe. If such breakthroughs continue, the contest might yet get something risible visible. "Voter apathy may be peaking too early," deadpans Columnist Bill Vaughan of the Kansas City Star. Adds Boston Globe Cartoonist Paul Szep: "I had to scrounge around for topics, but then in the last few weeks the goofs have been so numerous that my cartoons now come naturally." Among them: a Soviet soldier...
Chain Gang. Meanwhile, Cartoonist Tony Auth of the Philadelphia Inquirer drew rock breakers in an Eastern European chain gang whispering, "President Ford declared our independence. Pass it on." And the Richmond News-Leader's Jeff Mac Nelly put Carter in a Texas barroom full of jug-eared Lyndon Johnson lookalikes; the candidate points to a portrait of L.B.J. over the bar and asks, "Say, who is that nasty-lookin' snake up there? He sure is ugly...
...this is swell for the producer; for Paramount, which put up $6 million in return for the U.S. distribution rights; and for the rest of the backers, mostly European bankers. But the really good news - assuming the last half of the picture is as exciting as the first - is that the movie lives up to its potential. King Kong looks to be a dream of a bopper...
...sniff trouble in Italia. I no like what I smell in the politics or the economy." He now says that his only mistake was not moving a decade earlier. "No other country makes room for foreigners. An American go to Europe to make movies, he be shut out. But European come here, everyone say, 'O.K let's see what he can do.' My God, how wonderful...