Word: kisses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doping out the "real news" becomes a complex intrigue, if the superior candidate is acting on information not publicly available, a summary of the merely public facts will serve notice to the insiders that the columnist is an outsider. Being an outsider in Washington is the kiss of death. The phone stops ringing. Lunch dates are cancelled. The columnist's voice takes on a tremulous uncertainty, and is no longer the gravel-pitched. "Don't shit me buddy" that opens doors in Washington...
Lear and a fellow hawker named Ed Simmons decided that the street they really wanted to work was comedy writing. It was 1949; the infant medium of television was ravenous for material; the new team needed just one break in order to kiss baby pictures goodbye -and Lear typically made it for them. Posing as a New York Times reporter, he got Danny Thomas' phone number from an agent. He called Thomas and offered him a piece of material for a benefit engagement that night at Ciro's in Hollywood. "How long will it run?" asked Thomas...
...Otis Chandler, Candice Bergen, Paul Newman (who has a hotrod engine hidden beneath his Volkswagen's middle-class bustle) and Barry Goldwater (who arrived and departed via helicopter). For Tricia, a highlight of the day was awarding the trophy to Winner Roger McCluskey, who then planted a hearty kiss on her cheek. "She does look nice," admitted a model, admiring Tricia's sleeveless print dress. "That's something I'd wear to church. If I went to church...
...first sent out feelers to the Vatican to end the 900-year-old battle between Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy.*The gesture culminated in the historic meeting between Pope Paul VI and Athenagoras in 1964 on Jerusalem's sacred Mount of Olives, where the two men exchanged a kiss of peace and prayed together. The next year, the Patriarch and the Pope officially revoked the mutual anathemas that had been hurled at the start of the schism between East and West in 1054. In 1967 they capped the new era of good feeling by exchanging visits at Istanbul and Rome...
...line, however, between charming farce of an innocent 1880's and the hideously sappy antics of a Booth Tarkington imagined era can be very thin. When the older clerk in miser Vandergelder's store convinces the junior employee that they should each kiss a girl on their secret daylong journey from Yonkers into New York, the boy protests. "I'm thirty-three," says Cornelius. "I've got to begin sometime." "I'm only seventeen," Barnaby retorts: "It isn't so urgent for me." It's an aptly humorous exchange. But when Barnaby does receive a kiss, the stage directions call...