Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While he was mulling over his options in Colorado last week, President Ford did not hesitate to use his veto power to knock down two energy-related bills passed by the outgoing 93rd Congress. Both bills, as Ford saw them, were at cross-purposes with the Administration's goals for dealing with both the energy problem and inflation...
...course it's grating, flatulent, desperate-all in the best and the worst manner of Mel Brooks. As comic and as film maker, Brooks wants to knock you cockeyed. For a laugh, he will do anything, try anything. He rains gags. After a Brooks bit, audiences can be exhausted; after a Brooks film, there is the lingering feeling of having been pummeled. Brooks is like a young, slightly skittish fighter whose energy compensates for lack of finesse. He hits out wildly, continuously, hoping that a few punches will land. Since comedy audiences usually have their guard down (they want...
...full-fledged fight did occur, however, between two members of the press. Christopher Lydon, a reporter for the New York Times given to flamboyant dress, was knocked down by Robert Novak, a columnist and partner of Rowland Evans. Novak had gotten into a closed-to-the-press labor caucus. When Lydon tried to follow him he was told to leave. Lydon complained that if other reporters could go in, so could he. As a result Novak was identified as a reporter and thrown out. Novak in his anger yelled, "If you ever do that again I'll knock your block...
Arsenic and Old Lace is that old play about two old women in an old mansion in Brooklyn who knock people off with poisoned elderberry wine, a play that a lot of people seem to think is funny. The Leverett House production is very well done, though. Fri. at 8 p.m. and midnight...
...some money by cutting down on meat, but he adds that the problem is not money. "The real problem is bringing about a change in the patterns of consumption," he says. "That is the only way large amounts of grain can be freed and the only way we can knock down the amount of fat and cholesterol in the American diet...