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...glad you asked me that question here in Baltimore, home of the John Birch Society and birthplace of 567 men who died defending our country's honors and values in our last noble war. But to answer your question, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said-(five Reagan aides gag the candidate and remove him from the studio...
...Korea the rival agencies used to fight for headlines with newsbeats about hills taken or Chinese hordes repelled. ("How many Chinese in a horde?" the gag used to be.) With Wirephotos from Tokyo, still photographers regularly beat the infant TV industry; television cameramen had to ship their film halfway round the world to San Francisco, a 36-hour flight in those prop-driven days...
...digging our way out of the ash, which was so hot that it burned our hands. Our mouths were full of mud. I told Sue we were going to die, and she said, 'Nonsense.' " As they crawled out from under the trees and ash, they began to gag from the gases in the air and had to cover their mouths with their sweatshirts; stones hailed down and raised bumps on their heads...
...time to deliver nuclear warheads to any point in the Soviet Union, not to mention Europe or the western U.S. This point was emphatically made on the Soviets, though their press studiously ignored the missile firings. As for Western military analysts, they quickly laid to rest a cocky old gag to the effect that the Chinese would launch a missile when a group of Shanghai acrobats leaped from the top of the Great Wall onto a teeter-totter. The strike potential of the CSS-X-4, primitive or not, was clearly a serious matter...
...that he would let others direct the rest of the series. Kershner was chosen for The Empire because Lucas admired his ability to deal with human relationships. Lucas himself seems a little uncomfortable with real actors, and when he was making American Graffiti, his wordless style became a friendly gag among the actors. Richard Dreyfuss later joked that he was on the set three weeks before he knew that the director could speak English. While The Empire was being made, Lucas showed up at the London studios, where the interiors were shot, only three tunes. "I'd invite...