Word: lindsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founded the American Labor Party; when it began to take on a Communist tint in 1944, he and other union leaders created the rival Liberal Party. The actual vote on the Liberal line was never large, but it was big enough to sway many elections. Republicans such as John Lindsay and Democrats Averell Harriman, Robert Wagner, John Kennedy, Daniel Moynihan and Jimmy Carter were all grateful recipients of Liberal endorsement. Rose liked to claim that his party existed only to advance good government, but he once acknowledged: "Frequently, when you do what is right, it turns out to be also...
Mayor White is frustrated because he will never reach a higher office and frightened that he may follow John Lindsay's path of failure and anonymity. So he is shamelessly tampering with Boston's political structure. In the corrupt world of Boston politics it is mandatory that one makes deals and protects one's own interests in order to be successful. But White has abandoned any pretense of integrity, immersing himself in an unjustifiable mire of compromise and self-interest...
MOST APPEALING ARGUMENT FOR FEMINISM: Lindsay Wagner as the Bionic Woman...
...sure, NBC had spun Angie Dickinson's Police Woman out of its Police Story series two years ago and had done reasonably well with a show that portrayed a woman as brave and self-reliant. Then, of course, there was The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner. Silverman ordered her resurrected after she was erroneously bumped off at the end of a special appearance on The Six Million Dollar Man; a heart and a rather engaging spirit coexist with the electronic circuitry under Lindsay's lovely skin. The fact that The Bionic Woman consistently rates...
Neither Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner nor Wonder Woman Lynda Carter has, obviously, the mature appeal of an Angie Dickinson. But Los Angeles-born Wagner, who did a couple of low-budget features (notably Paper Chase), has potential. The show's creator, Ken Johnson, says he modeled her character after an ideal date he had in mind, someone "truthful, witty and eminently attractive," and Wagner seems to fill the bill. Says Wagner: "I'm trying like hell not to be Wonder Woman." Carter, 24, who is trying like hell to put that character across, is a former swimming champion...