Word: liz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to be a long, hot summer with rioting in the East Wing," groaned Elizabeth Carpenter as she looked forlornly forward to Luci Baines Johnson's August wedding. As Lady Bird's press secretary, Liz has cause to worry. All the world's journalists, from the Australian Consolidated Press to an editor of the student paper at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia, want to come to the affair. Turning most of them down is tough enough; saying no to assorted requests from reporters who have been invited is honing her tongue. How about telephones...
Happy in the Bath. For all the problems, chances are good that Liz will survive. She has pulled through several others. When the First Lady made her whistle-stop tour of the South in the 1964 presidential campaign, Liz kept overworked, underfed reporters happy with a steady flow of banter and favors. Taking note of their sweaty condition, she announced: "On the theory that the press that bathes together stays together, we have reserved three rooms, baths, and showers and 150 towels at the Duval Hotel in Tallahassee tonight." To reporters who missed the train, she offered...
...Liz also masterminded Lady Bird's raft ride down the Rio Grande last spring. She persuaded park rangers to abandon their headquarters so that it could serve as a pressroom. She checked the river to make sure that there was enough water for rafting, placed privies at strategic sand bars along the route. For the benefit of anxious photographers, she launched the expedition under a full moon. And she exhorted the reporters: "The management of this trip is not responsible if these elaborate procedures fail to work. In that case, don't blame us. Just put the copy...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Richard Burton, in his pre-Liz days, and Barbara Rush play it for bathos in The Bramble Bush, about a doctor who returns to his small home town to treat an incurably ill friend...
Broadway Director Mike Nichols, in his first movie job, can claim a sizable victory simply for the performance he has wrung from Elizabeth Taylor. Looking fat and fortyish under a smear of makeup, with her voice pitched well below the belt, Liz as Martha is loud, sexy, vulgar, pungent, and yet achieves moments of astonishing tenderness. Only during sustained eruptions does she lapse into monotony, or look like an actress play-acting animosity instead of feeling it. As the ambitious young prof whose blueprint for success includes "plowing a few pertinent wives," George Segal exudes callow opportunism assuredly. And Broadway...