Word: eventfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trib also ran a description of the convention as it might have been written by Norman Mailer, who was covering the event for Harper's. "Mailer," began the Tribune in the third-person style of the author's The Armies of the Night, "came to Miami Beach with a great sense of Dread. He saw John Lindsay right away and that gave him a sharper sense of guilt because his article had elected Lindsay mayor in 1965, and Lindsay had turned out to be an adequate square. He had no existential dimension. By then it was time...
...happened. That search may mean bringing greater knowledge and understanding to a scene that the camera merely records, or seeking out the facts and drama not visible to the viewer: the behind-the-scenes action, the why of what is happening and, not least, the way in which each event relates to a larger sphere...
Echoing the President's opinion that sweeping price increases were unwarranted, White House aides claimed that the higher cost of the steel settlement could be partially made up in higher productivity. They also noted that labor accounts directly for only 40% of the price of steel. In any event, suggested one Government economist, steel companies could help combat inflation by absorbing at least part of the cost of higher wages instead of "asking the American people...
Like the actual event on which it is tenuously based, the picture begins brightly. A company treasurer (Robert Morse) is in the process of absconding to Brazil with the company funds when the power failure overtakes him at the scene of the crime. He quickly gloms an abandoned auto from a traffic jam and heads for Boston, where an airport is still functioning. But he gets only as far as the exurbs...
...often winding up embarrassingly distant. Audiences do not always warm to the Vice President's old-fashioned style, and his campaign forays of late have fallen flat. Last week in Manhattan when Diana Ross & the Supremes endorsed Humphrey, aides called a special press conference to announce the event. A reception for "Youthful Volunteers for Humphrey" drew a sparse crowd of political veterans well past the Pepsi generation...