Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Equal. For an after-dinner treat, there was a performance of Aaron Copland's ballet Billy the Kid. The guests went home still chuckling over Kennedy's graceful tribute to Houphouet-Boigny which was coupled with a comment about his own political situation. The Ivory Coast President, said the host, was certainly a distinguished individual, "and I am not alone referring to the fact that in a free election he was elected by 98% of the voters of his country-a record which has not been equaled recently in the United States, and from all I read, will...
...many observers this flurry of interest in political campaigns is not merely a passing fancy. There is a widespread realization that the old tactic of peace marches and demonstrations are too easily dismissed as "kid stuff" or "pinko" by the public...
Hollywood is seldom impressed with that sort of miracle-working, and the film version might well have starred, say, Doris Day as Helen's teacher and Rock Hudson as her father, with this little handicapped kid running around bumping into things and jerking tears. So Broadway Producer Fred Coe. Director Arthur Penn and Playwright William Gibson kept the movie rights, formed their own production company, rehired Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke and captured for good what is quite possibly the most moving double performance ever recorded on film...
...savagely asks the headmaster why her grandson has received four zeroes on his report card. All Sellers has to do is re-evaluate the child's true intelligence and the world is his. But he is too naive. He says no. he has checked his records, and the kid is really dumb...
...hungry for affection that she bites her mother's head off 30 times a day. Grows back, though, and mother uses it to persuade a used-car salesman (Robert Stephens) that he wants to marry her. "But we're not 'avin' the kid with us," he bellows in broad Mancunian. "So think on that...