Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That same collage of photographic thought works with better humor for Jack Nicholson in PRIZZI'S HONOR (Sack Copley Place). At first glance he plays the amiable Mafia hit man as simply as he slips into his Brooklyn accent, but his animated face and agile acting reveal a character far more likeable and intriguing than some cotton-mouthed thug...
Explaining what was meant by "harangues," one of the Sidewalk Poets, Jack Powers, mentioned that most public speakers, selling "religion, politics or a product," are a "turnoff to the spoken word...
...notion that "insiderism" can expose the true campaign is peddled in two books by two quintessentially Washington institutions: Newsweek, and the columnists Jack Germond and Jules Witcover (Germond qualifies solo). Newseek commited at least seven top-flight reporters to the gargantuan task of placing you, the reader, in the hip pocket of the candidates and their aides. Germond and Witcover, who can't help but write from the perspective of politicians' hip pockets, exhaustively chronicle the motivations and actions of all the Democratic pretenders and give a detailed account of the President's reelection effort...
Last week, as Cardiac Surgeon Jack Copeland was examining his patient in the sixth-floor intensive care unit at University Medical Center in Tucson, he noticed that Drummond was slurring his words. Soon afterward, the patient's right hand became immobile. Though Copeland hoped that Drummond's problems might be caused by abnormal levels of blood sugar or the aftereffects of sleeping medication, he feared the worst. "I had to admit it to myself," he says, "but I didn't want to." A neurologist confirmed that Drummond had suffered a mild stroke, most probably from tiny blood clots forming...
...dish industry's organization, SPACE (Society for Private Commercial Earth Stations), held its national convention at Nashville's Opryland Hotel, attracting about 14,000 participants and 700 exhibits. General Satellite of Slinger, Wis., displayed a "complete backyard system" for $370. "It includes everything except the television," said Company Representative Jack Krisel...