Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of all the investigations and grandstand plays by the Congress, let it get busy with something to remedy the present situation...
...each match in this week's stop on the Virginia Slims women's professional tennis tour at the Boston Harbor Marina Tennis Club in Squantum--she lets her poker face relax into a smile for a few autograph seekers and then walks into the carpeted press room behind the grandstand...
...Ford Motor Co. wanted to give each of the prisoners a new car. There were sure to be other offers, and Pentagon officers sometimes found themselves squirming a bit at the spectacle. President Nixon struck the right note when he said, "This is a time that we should not grandstand it; we should not exploit...
...both his main strength and his mam weakness. Says one colleague: "Mansfield tries to lead within the confines and strictures of this goddam institution, but we need stronger leadership." His Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, has been similarly criticized. A pipe-puffing moderate, Scott can grandstand if necessary but prefers low-key methods. He and Mansfield are good friends and work well together, despite certain differences on the Administration and the Viet Nam War. Mansfield, a harsh critic of the Nixon Administration and an outspoken foe of the Viet Nam War, now seems intent on restoring Congress...
...been Vidal's stock in trade. But in two previously uncollected pieces he demonstrates a humane, empathetic mastery of so-called personal journalism. In "The Death of Mishima," he blends his own acute sense of mortality with a meditation on the significance of the Japanese writer's grandstand suicide in 1971. In the end, it is not Yukio Mishima's writings that impress Vidal but the romantic act of conditioning his body for death. Ritual suicide is not Vidal's own cup of tea, though he is in poignant sympathy with the Japanese. "Worshiping the flesh...