Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberal Democrats, with Harris going the farthest, share Bayh's orientation toward jobs. Bayh is especially good on women's rights--he sponsored the ERA in the Senate--and even though he personally opposes abortion, he would not legislate against it. Bayh's major claim to fame, however, is his fight against the Haynesworth and Carswell nominations to the Supreme Court. Andrew Kopkind of the Real Paper says that the real credit for defeating those nominations, however, should go to civil rights activist Marian Edelman, who put a lobbying coalition together in which Bayh was only the Senate spokesman...
Station To Station could certainly have been composed in a month (much of it resembled "Fame," the hit single off Young American that took Bowie and John Lennon a scant 45 minutes to concoct) by a man suffering from terminal ennui, but I'm not complaining, well, not much anyway. The album is a testament to the efficiency of the Bowie machine. Stripped as he is here of many cherished pretentions (adrogynous messiah, apocalyptic visionary, etc.) and locked into a disco beat, Bowie can still captivate us. It's a creditable and also slightly curious accomplishment...
Penn freshman Bob Speca set up a display of several hundred dominos in an intricate arrangement before the meet at poolside. In the pre-meet ritual for the Quakers, Speca, of the Johnny Carson show fame, knocked down the dominos that fell into a pattern reading, "Go Penn, Have...
...small businessmen, San Clemente, sterile beauty and freeways. Smile was released about a year ago, and because of some kind of distribution problems, hasn't made it to a lot of theatres. The focus of the movie is a state beauty pageant managed by Barbara Feldon (of Get Smart fame) and judged by Bruce Dern, but that's just a jumping off point for an examination of the so-called community of Santa Rosa. The comic sensibility of director Michael Ritchie, who did Downhill Racer and The Candidate, is not quite as cynical as I'd like...
...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...