Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mostly behind closed doors, some 100 reporters representing publications and broadcasting stations throughout the world milled around outside the court and enlarged on trivia: the court had approved Patty's request to have her long hair trimmed in jail; someone had sent her an application for an American Express credit card, suggesting that she could "buy gifts, send flowers, cable money, host a dinner, even if you can't be there...
...robbing a branch of San Francisco's Hibernia Bank on April 15, 1974. Celebrated Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey, 42, will concede that Patty was there, all right, but only out of fear for her life because of threats by her captors. Both sides will present psychiatrists to express opposing views on whether the granddaughter of the late Publisher William Randolph Hearst could have been "brainwashed" by her abductors, as claimed by her lawyers. During what is expected to be a four-to five-week trial, the defense plan is to have Patty take the stand to describe...
...once campaigned for the vice presidency, but found real fame as a TV pitchman for American Express, joked Bill Miller, running mate with Barry Goldwater back in 1964. Miller, now 61, was speaking at the Washington Press Club's annual congressional dinner on the ironies of presidential politics. "I lost the vice presidency by 16 million votes. I wasn't invited anyplace for six years," he noted. "In 1972, Sarge Shriver lost the vice presidency by nearly 20 million votes-and [now] he's running for President." Still, there was one dividend from the oblivion that followed...
...Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.)-don't you just love the title?-are chubby James Coco and padded Geraldine Brooks. They are the proprietors of a Mom and Pop lunch counter who are required to coo repulsively at each other and rub flab, while their slender customers express ironic wonder that these lard tubs are actually happier than they are. Gross...
...each week and around whom an entire show is written. Among the first tapped by Michaels were Comedian George Carlin and Actor Rob Reiner. Says Reiner: "I didn't care if the show fell flat on its ass. TV needed it." He adds: "It's like an express train that no one can stop. You just have to hop aboard and hope it won't crash...