Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...punishment assembled in Florida last week to stage a last-minute campaign for the hapless Spenkelink. Henry Schwarzschild of the American Civil Liberties Union warned of a "constitutional, legal and political disaster that will shock and appall the rest of the world." Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a late addition to Spenkelink's defense team, called the occasion "a tragic moment in American history" and gibed, "If you work at city hall you get voluntary manslaughter," a caustic reference to the lenient verdict against Dan White, the slayer of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk...
...drives about the country in his Land Rover. Married, with no children, he follows a strict Muslim lifestyle; he never drinks or smokes. His first luxury when he came to power was to order a complete set of Gilbert and Sullivan records and install a stereo set. Of late he has indulged his taste for luxury cars, including two Porsches and several Mercedes...
...sugar industry has been given some of the U.S.'s sweetest deals. For 40 years cane and beet growers were shielded by import quotas that not only helped keep domestic prices at twice the world level, but also fostered corruption and bribery and made Congressmen like the late Harold Cooley, Democratic chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, virtual Secretaries of State for Sugar...
Congress, a beat he was given in late 1954, was different. Baker loved its ripe pomposities, its jostling overweeners, the interplay and foolishness of it all. Pat Furgurson of the Sun recalls joking with Baker in the Senate gallery: "Baker would look down and say, 'Look, there's Ken Keating, wearing Charles Bickford's old hair.'" Charles McDowell of the Richmond Times-Dispatch recalls Baker's work: "He'd start out writing about some Senator, and pretty soon it would turn into a piece of architecture. He'd set scenes and roll around in his story like an essayist...
...doesn't point to her and say, 'You should have seen her before I worked on her.'" If a show is a smash, the original team generally gets the credit, not the doctor. So why does a successful playwright or director answer those frantic calls late at night? "You've got to make a house call," says Gelbart, who, like many play doctors, often slips medical touches into his conversation. He adds, "Any Christ complex you have rises immediately to the top." Power may in fact be the best satisfaction. Says Joe Stein...