Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sling the juiciest mud. Or, whoever has been the most successful at convincing people that his opponent is totally incompetent or dangerous. Rep. Michael J. Harrington '58 (D-Mass.) admits that King has the "instincts of a soup-kitchen general for the Salvation Army," but on the other hand he thinks Massachusetts could use such a man to spur economic development in the northeast. Harrington's point is that King is a hustler, and that the state needs someone like him, even if he is going to run everyone over to get what he wants...
...used to sit in the car a few minutes before going in, psyching myself, making a deliberate effort to be calm," Belisle recalls. "But I almost ruined one case by blowing my top." That was when he entered the house to discover that the parents had tied a baby hand and foot to a bedpost...
Ferzoco points to a row of children's photographs lining the top of her desk. Picking out one of three smiling, hand someblond children, she says, "These were all from the same mother. The youngest was only six weeks old when I got a call from the hospital. The mother brought it in because it wouldn't stop crying." The child had a broken collar bone, and when the doctor examined it further, he found several other partially healed fractures. "Only six weeks old and she'd done that already," Ferzoco says. "We finally took the baby...
...that matter?were right to treat this visit as a stupendous event. The sleeping giant of Asia, xenophobic, almost rabid in its suspicions of other nations, had awakened to the possibilities of the real world. It had decided to confront the Soviet Union's expansionist designs on the one hand and its own economic backwardness on the other. To achieve this, Peking was willing to make a great leap outward. Not long ago, China's titular leader, Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, traveled to Rumania, Yugoslavia and Iran, making deals, offering Chinese friendship. Now it was Teng's turn...
...expansionist landowner (Robards). The villain, meanwhile, has problems of his own-an oil-company executive (George Grizzard) wants to plunder the cattle fields for crude. It is not difficult to guess what follows. Like every other so-called modern western, this one features a trusty old ranch hand (nicely played by Rich ard Farnsworth) who dies to symbolize the passing of the Old West. Like every old-fashioned western, Horseman slowly but surely sends its taciturn heroine into the macho hero's arms. Clark's climax, a plain old Shootout, is surprising only because it is capped...