Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev deserve a big hand for SALT [June 25]: to make the world safer for everyone is a great achievement. Let's hope it works...
...puts more color into the wood," says Acey Decy Equipment Co.'s Peter Ritter. The sound system is pitched to discourage any distracting conversation in the audience. Young women in long, sexy T shirts pass out ice-cream daiquiris. People sit clutching bid cards in one hand and plates of shrimp, ribs, tacos, fruit, salad in the other. In the aisles, dozens of bid spotters, dressed in implausible ice cream-hued tuxedos, gesture, shout, plead, cheer and jump...
...Loeb production begins, two actors haltingly read the play's very conventional opening lines, their scripts in hand. After a moment or two of this parody, the actors give up, tossing away the scripts in a gesture that at least honestly declares the director's intentions...
...label. For half a century he has been sitting by the victrola, one ear cocked to the horn, checking out the sounds with the same expression on his earnest face, as if he expected the machine to throw him a bone. He has weathered considerable changes: shellac to plastic; hand cranks to separate components; 78 to 45 to 33; mono to stereo and, most recently, a skirmish with quad. There is a revolutionary change coming up, however, that bids fair to wag his tail and pin his floppy ears back...
...however, his owner insists that he must pursue his pugilistic career in earnest. This leads to much yelling between them and much misunderstanding of the rules and traditions of boxing once she takes a hand in his training. The feuding is supposed to be funny, but the film is so repetitive that it is usually boring, when it isn't uncomfortable...