Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cast-Iron Stomachs...
...moments, and Hine had an uncanny eye for the right one. An Italian woman, carrying a floppy bundle of sweatshop piecework on her head through the Lower East Side, is transformed into an icon of labor - solid as a young Mother Courage, but turned into a caryatid by the iron lamp post that rises above her head, exactly on the axis of her body...
...whose face seems more left than lifted. "Lines, lines, go away," she says. "Pay a visit to Doris Day." At the back of the theater, sitting in a wheelchair, is Crystal the Terrible Tumble weed. A quadraplegic, Crystal has been crossing the country in her wheelchair, the CB-equipped Iron Duchess; when last seen, she was on her way to hang-glide off Big Sur, Calif. Swaggering down the aisle, belching and downing a beer at the same time, is Rick, the ex-football bruiser turned singles-bar cruiser. Sitting in the front row is his natural enemy, Mrs. Beasley...
Aside from that, all he has as presented here is his dubious wit and reputation as a drinking man--the best known in America since W.C. Fields, the authors gush. He brags endlessly about his phenomenal partying abilities--his "cast iron stomach," beer for breakfast, minnow swallowing, guzzling at the banquet podium...
...shows to appear before the slow summer TV season. Referring to his farewell speech, Nixon said jocularly: "We got a hell of an audience on August 9, 1974." To ensure that same hell of an audience in May, Frost met with his subject at San Clemente last week to iron out final details and digest the briefing books put together by his staff for the marathon taping sessions scheduled from March 23 to April 20. Under the terms of the $650,000-or-so deal, the ex-President has no control over content or editing and cannot...