Word: letter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once, Costanza, 45, was reticent. She sent Carter a letter of resignation, issued a valedictory statement claiming that "no one asked me to go" and then slipped away to a Florida hideaway...
...canine crisis in New York. The situation even merited a full 2½ minutes on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. Whether they played it funny or somber, it was a trying topic for newswriters faced with the basic problem of finding bowdlerisms for two very basic four-letter words...
...Broadway audiences recall The National Lampoon Show of 1975, in which Gilda Radner playing Patty Hearst machine-gunned Steven Weed. Lampoon writers routinely savage Kennedys, Nixons, Third World peasants and American capitalists. No one, alive or dead, is sacred. The Lampoon's last issue included a fictional letter to the editor in which "Larry Flynt" referred to himself as "the George Wallace of porn." With this kind of animus, it is no wonder that the Lampoon's first movie has a richly deserved R rating...
Martin had long been accustomed to blasting his boss in four-letter words while talking to reporters. But because the remarks were delivered off the record, they were not printed. This time the newsmen felt that Martin was talking for print?and they printed his crack about Steinbrenner being "convicted," a reference to his guilty plea in connection with illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign.* Within twelve hours of deriding his boss, Martin was tearfully reading a "resignation" speech. Steinbrenner, who has never been loath to meddle in clubhouse affairs (including making out lineup cards and giving...
...nudged James Jones down the thin red line that led to From Here to Eternity. Once he sensed the presence of talent, Perkins thought no burden too great if it would help an author produce a worthy novel. While suggesting possible improvements to one writer, he spun out a letter 30 pages long. He managed finances, patched up family troubles, soothed egos and never complained about the demands made on his patience and energy. The strain hastened his death...