Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lyrical murders? When Bouvier begins to kill, The Judge and The Assassin becomes utterly incomprehensible. Tavernier's presentation of these gruesome murders has an appalling pastoral charm; the young victims lie asleep in their blood, their lamb-like eyes closed forever. Little ugliness or real violence sullies the screen; death comes amid aerial shots of southern France and the lyrical song of birds...
...right to divorce their parents and cruised "singlekids' bars" trying to find new ones; Hollywood capitalized on the trend with a smash-hit movie, Looking for Mr. and Mrs. Goodbar. Food shortages put the Fat Look in vogue, and fashion-conscious women draped themselves in Sheetrock, paper lamb-chop collars and plastic garbage bags. As the population grew older, self-conscious young people added years with Agequake makeup...
Between the stops, scheduled and unscheduled, Rosalynn mostly stayed out of sight. But Amy, free for once from the formality of the White House, delightedly engaged four other girls on board in a game of hide-and-seek with her security agent, and picked out Mary Had a Little Lamb on the Delta Queen's calliope. Amy has developed into something of a campaigner; at some stops she worked her own sections of the crowd. One night, when Carter was speaking from the boat to a riverbank audience, several young boys standing knee-deep in the water shouted...
...called it a "forced resignation" that was "an insult to black people." To Congressman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, what happened to Young was a "pointblank firing." Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, charged that Young had been made "a sacrificial lamb for circumstances beyond his control." Instead of being out of a job, said Hooks, Young "should have received a presidential medal" for pulling off "a brilliant diplomatic coup...
...halt what Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi (see interview) has called "inaccurate reporting" by the foreign press, the Tehran government last week served notice that it was drawing up new restrictions on foreign reporters. New York Times Correspondent Youssef Ibrahim was ordered out of Iran. In early July David Lamb of the Los Angeles Times had also been expelled. No specific grounds were given for Ibrahim's ouster, but Yazdi said it was because of "the general tone of his reporting. American correspondents are not reporting accurately on Iran. We do not say everything is rosy, but by their continually...