Word: informant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latter particularly reflect the influence of nearby Las Vegas. The Joker's Wild offers giant slot machines that inform players of their question categories and winnings. Gambit is a variation on blackjack, while High Rollers is essentially a dice game with questions worked in. There are more celebrities -and more well known-on the L.A. shows. A huge pool of talent whose prime-time series have been canceled are glad to pick up this bargain-basement work. The computerlike electronics of the score-keeping on these shows is probably a fallout from the region's interest in space...
Here is a piece of Frost, written with diffidence and pictured in a large batch of welcome photographs, many of them done by LIFE'S Howard Sochurek during Frost's 1957 visit to England. The poet is elsewhere, though never so remote that he cannot inform anything that has been written about him. For example, these lines from his long poem on New Hampshire...
Among the conversations I listened to at that time were two of those of June 23. Although I recognized that these presented potential problems. I did not inform my staff or my counsel of it, or those arguing my case, nor did I amend my submission to the Judiciary Committee in order to include and reflect...
...interested in how it felt to be a leftist in the days of the party line, if you feel any sympathy at all for the single-minded pursuit of a political dream, then see this by any and all means. Resnais's movie will touch you, inform you, will make you understand something about the dialectic between men and history. It is a sad film in many ways, and this very sadness is the key to comprehending the human side of political struggle. The action takes place in Spain and France, and it's about a group of people...
...Senate Watergate committee passed quietly into history last week-and with it an extraordinary episode in congressional annals. Having accomplished its primary objective-to inform the U.S. public about the facts and dimensions of the Watergate case-the committee bequeathed the continuing investigation to a host of other legislative and judicial bodies. But before it expired, it issued one last broadside: a 350-page staff report alleging, among other things, that leftover campaign funds had been used by President Nixon's good friend C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo to pay for various major improvements to the Nixon properties at Key Biscayne...