Word: hayden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reagan declared that Americans should "never again" go to war "unless we intend to win." Magicians and stand-up comics have sought to amuse. A press release has been circulated announcing that California Governor Jerry Brown will get the "Benedict Arnold Citizenship Award" for appointing ex-antiwar Activist Tom Hayden to the state's new solar energy panel. And now Tony Bennett is closing the show with a sad, silky version of Autumn Leaves. Off to the side, watching them, one begins to sense in some measure what they have endured, and still endure. They perfectly illustrate some lines...
...chains, a head scarf, a few phrases of Romany and presto, Shelley Winters is an ample gypsy queen in King of the Gypsies. Based on Peter Maas' saga about gypsy life in America today, the film describes the stormy succession to the throne of King Zharko (Sterling Hayden). During the shooting of a scene at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Winters decided to see how authentic she looked. Sauntering over to diners in the Palm Court, she offered to tell their fortunes and was swiftly chased out by the management. Later came revenge. Winters watered the palms with whisky...
...statue is the Museum of Fine Arts, featuring an exhibit of Rembrandt etchings. Beware--the MFA is closed on Mondays, but open every other day. Other points of interest: The Gardner Museum and the Museum of Science. While at the Science Museum, stay for evening shows in the Hayden Planetarium of a laser musical, Lovelight, and what is billed as a laser light spectacular. These will be showing all week; call the museum for times...
...occasions civil libertarians have beaten down proposals for national computerized data banks (on tax and census information). Each time they successfully invoked fears of 1984-style invasion of privacy by electronic technology. "Public opinion is aroused when a central computer is proposed," says A.C.L.U. Privacy Project Director Trudy Hayden. "But this time, they're starting small, matching two little computer lists, affecting only the poor and the weak...
...Prime Minister managed to install many of the fixtures of welfare-state-ism in Australia, notably its first national health service. As soon as Labor's massive defeat became obvious, Whitlam announced that he would step down as party leader, thus leaving his former treasurer, Bill Hayden, 44, as his most likely successor. By contrast, the results were a minor victory for the Democrats' Don Chipp, 52, a Liberal renegade whose centrist views and unabashed idealism apparently struck a welcome chord among voters. Said he: "We offer an alternative to the politics of cynicism, character assassination and misleading...