Word: folderol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Susie, the sister, falls in love with a chap disguised as a hobo, who is in fact about to inherit a swanky hotel. Also singing and dancing across the stage are a lessthan-scrupulous lawyer, a Mexican bandit, a stern uncle, a cooing couple and assorted chorus members. The folderol produces no fewer than four marriages, as well as such numbers as "The Half of It Dearie Blues," "I'd Rather Charleston" and "The Man I Love...
...downhome, cardigan style. Even the West, which went overwhelmingly for Ford last November, is now warming to the President. Says Karen Stone, a housewife active in Democratic Party politics in Pacific Palisades, Calif: "There is something I'm beginning to like about Carter. The low-keyed, anti-folderol approach. I still mistrust his Baptist fundamentalist upbringing and the whole thing about his being a Southerner. But I must admit the accent is bothering me less than...
...done-but badly, and too late. By hesitating, Ford angered many Americans, black and white alike. He seemed to be giving in to pressure, including Carter's-hardly helpful to a man who is running as a strong leader. The incident also evoked images of Washington folderol-the ole-boy network of Republican cronies sticking together. Worried one top Ford aide when it was finished: "I'm afraid some people will start wondering how straight a guy, how nice a fellow the President really is." Appearing at the University of Southern California last week, Ford was ridiculed...
Predictably, Italian critics did not spare their barbs at the once tempestuous diva. "A boring and costly family party" was how one described the first-night folderol. Critic Duilio Courir tartly suggested that I Vespri Siciliani, as one of Verdi's most complex works, was "surely not advisable for beginners...
...place but Rome! So insisted French President Georges Pompidou, when he first proposed to visit Italy for talks with President Giovanni Leone and Premier Giulio Andreotti. Pompidou explained that he wanted to skip a formal trip to the Eternal City in order to avoid the folderol-state dinners, motorcades, military honors, perhaps a papal audience-that would get in the way of the "working visit" he envisioned. Instead, he suggested something "like my meeting with Mr. Heath at Chequers," the country estate where he had met informally with the British Prime Minister last March...