Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last April, President Carter glanced up to discover the approach of an unusual foe -an enraged rabbit. Just why a rabbit was swimming straight for the Carter canoe, teeth flashing and nostrils flaring, was unclear. Carter later surmised that perhaps the creature was fleeing an attacker. In any event, he did the sensible thing. He fended off the animal with a paddle. That at least was what they were saying around the White House last week. Claimed they had a picture showing the whole thing, but no, they were not about to release it. Said an amused Carter aide: "This...
...Dickie joined the Royal Navy as a cadet at Osborne, a rigorous officer-training academy on the Isle of Wight. He was soon seared by an event that is thought to have directed the course of his life: as World War I broke out his father was hounded by anti-German hysteria and forced to resign as First Sea Lord. The tears that ran down the cadet's face, according to a biographer, instilled a burning ambition to rise in the military establishment and avenge Prince Louis' humiliation...
Adams' photographic career began with the first trip he took to Yosemite, with his father in June 1916. He brought along a Kodak Brownie box camera. The trip was "a tremendous event," he recalls. From that moment, the Sierra?"that great earth gesture"?dominated Adams' life, changed his vocation, gave him his subjects. He was married there, to fellow Californian Virginia Best, a marriage that has lasted 51 years. One of his two children was born there, and not a year has passed since 1916 without his making at least one return visit. Often the visits have been elaborate...
Journalistic previewing constantly diminishes an event, boring the reader before it happens, making an election either an unsurprising confirmation of what was foretold or else an exercise in judging whether a candidate has done as well "as expected." This can be unfair, as it was to Senator Edmund Muskie in New Hampshire in 1972. Long before the primaries, a Boston Globe poll prematurely "gave" Muskie 65% of the vote; on election day, though Muskie beat George McGovern, 46% to 37%, the press proclaimed McGovern the real winner...
...cast and crew. A scene in which Kristofferson lashes out at a crowd with a bullwhip had to be shot 53 times. Says Walken, who won an Oscar for The Deer Hunter: "There are extraordinary moments with him. He takes you to places that make the whole event special...