Word: ll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...words, as defined entities, are self-limiting; now Carlin has come to a plateau in his life where new and fresh words and ironies are getting harder to find. He is literally fighting to free himself from his own words, and he'll try to do it through film...
...ahead of any group's goals." Replied Carol Sharnoff of Long Island, N.Y.: "I'm outraged by what's going on here. If the experts can't give you an answer [on the constitutional question], look to the people of this country, and we'll give you an answer...
When Cy Vance tells me to shut up, I'll shut up." So said Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young early in 1977, as he embarked on a policy of open-mouth diplomacy that featured a number of ill-timed and poorly conceived outbursts. Last week, following his most incendiary quotations ever, Secretary of State Vance and President Carter finally told Andy Young, in effect, to shut up. Reprimanding Young by telephone, Carter said that he was "very unhappy with [Young's] choice of words ... and several statements." After apologizing, the U.N. Ambassador conceded that...
Gary Busey, himself a part-time rock musician with Leon Russell's band, delivers Holly's hits adequately; his That'll Be the Day palls only when compared point-blank with the original. As an actor. Busey comes into his own this time around, after a career of character roles in little-seen films (Straight Time, The Last American Hero). Whether he is playing Holly as a hick in the big city or a lovesick husband or a teen-age idol, Busey always seems convincing. He brings a swagger to the musical numbers and an engaging buck...
...engineer who moved to Detroit in 1973, owns a four-bedroom home with swimming pool and a vacation cottage in northern Michigan. "When I meet a cynical guy in the U.S.," says Bickerstaff, "I tell him: 'Why don't you go to England and live? You'll come back a happy American.' " -Michael Demarest