Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find it hard to buy the idea of a presidential David locked in combat with a congressional Goliath when Congress is controlled by the President's party. There is a limit to how much public relations can accomplish. Notes Ted Van Dyk, a longtime aide to the late Hubert Humphrey: "Image flows from policies and performance. If they aren't good, no imagemaker can repair the situation...
...House Health Policy Adviser Dr. Peter Bourne, 38, his letter of resignation landed with an unwelcome thump upon the desk of his already beleaguered friend, Jimmy Carter. As both Bourne and White House aides agreed, the resignation was an attempt to calm a growing furor, but it came too late to prevent front-page newspaper investigation of a politically explosive topic: the illegal use of drugs, including marijuana and cocaine, in the White House and elsewhere in the nation's capital...
JUDY GARLAND would have understood; so would Mickey Rooney. In the warm Weather, after all, a college person's fancy turns to thoughts of do-it-yourself--that's why we had all those nauseating college films of the late '30s. "My dad's got a barn," Mickey would volunteer, and My Mom's got a sewing machine for making costumes," Judy would chime in, and before the audience had time to groan at the sheer corniness of it all, they would have A SHOW. Well, it's 40 years later now and the lure of Ziegfeld has given...
...Late last night the first few copies of the Summer School's experimental newspaper, rolled off the press in the basement of the Crimson building at building at 14 Plympton St. Strike one blow for the do-it-yourselfers, and strike another for the love of free discussion, which along with a few proffered dollars convinced us at The Crimson to print a newspaper that is being billed as the Summer School's alternative to this paper. But even as the clatter of the press was subsiding at the end of the inaugural run, the sight of the newly printed...
...disclaimers, the role is clearly modeled on the late Martha Mitchell. Instead of Attorney General John Mitchell, we have Crispin Stewart, a powerful Pennsylvania senator with Presidential ambitions. The Mitchells' young daughter, Martha, has been turned into Alice, a grade school science teacher in her 20s. The last character in the play, Dave Castle, is the senator's cool, climbing, clean-cut legal aide, not too unlike John Dean...