Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Limo-Liberal Mayor John Lindsay of New York is enjoying the perks of his job while he still has them. One perquisite is his appearance at the city's annual film festival at Lincoln Center, where he gets to squire those sexy foreign film stars. But why doesn't he get someone to write some new jokes? Ogling Actress Jacqueline Bisset, His Honor trotted out the same saw he used for Catherine Deneuve three years ago: "They don't make pretty girls like that any more. And neither...
...been lost to history because he has had to discontinue them. It probably was a mistake to start it in the first place, though I must say we'd know an awful lot more about the country and the world if we had something like this from Lincoln and Jefferson...
...acoustics are good, and it seats 2,700 people. It lacks the frigid and pompous vulgarity of theaters like the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center or, worse still, Edward Durrell Stone's monstrous box of upholstered Mussolini at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. But that is not saying a great deal. The design, with its pleats of white birch, hanging plastic doughnuts and faired-in lights, is weirdly Art Deco: it could be the set for a lavish Buck Rogers movie from the '30s-"Desist, Zorka, or you will destroy...
...cost of New York City's Lincoln Center, which includes six major buildings: $152 million...
...Lincoln did a real good job running the ball for us," O'Neill said. The 6 ft. 1 in., 195 lb. fullback was the game's leading ground gainer picking up 100 yards on seven carries...