Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nowhere to be seen. Caamaño himself seemed to forget everything except the clobbering he had taken. His secretary proudly reported that he had been right out there on the firing line. "When the shooting starts," she said, "the President is the first one to grab his gun and join the firing...
Were the young listening? Probably not. The last word may belong to the student speaker at Yale who some time ago summed up the situation with a cliché of his own: "We are the leaders of tomorrow-how does that grab...
...favorite role was in last year's The Killers. "In the opening," he recalls, "me and my partner sidle into a blind home looking for a doublecrosser. I get behind the head blind dame, grab her by the throat and push her almost to the floor. 'Where's Johnny North?' I breathe in her ear. So she tells us. I barge into the room knocking the blindees over-we used real ones-and I say, 'You Johnny North?' He says yeah. So we take out our guns and we put ten bullets...
...long by 10 ft. high, or 13 ft. longer than its namesake, the U.S.A.F.'s new variable-winged jet fighter-bomber. The painting is made up of 51 panels, some aluminum, and uses a side view of the jet as a background for a grab bag of contemporary images in phosphorescent Dayglo colors-a Firestone tire, an umbrella superimposed on a nuclear mushroom cloud, giant light bulbs, a beaming six-year-old under the chrome busby of a hair dryer-all executed in Rosenquist's precise realistic style...
...that time at night when the news is over and some smily-toothed character is guessing tomorrow's weather. At that moment insomniacs all over America grab for the TV schedule to check the late and late late movies. Every weekday night, 260 weekday nights a year, some 8,700,000 of them decide against the films in favor of spending their last waking hour and 45 minutes with Johnny Carson...