Word: ll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day three resolutions were introduced in the house that could bring ERA up for another vote, perhaps this week. Still, victory is far from certain. Explains Thompson: "It'll be hard for me to go back to the Republicans who stuck out their necks. You can only go to the well just so often...
Busby Berkeley: You forgot they also sold Astaire's walking stick. Louie, I bet they'll put in red wallpaper and mirrors, and the show will be fabulous. It always worked for us, didn't it? Oh, boy, would I like to do this one. Chorus girls, feathers L.B.M.: Sure, but first we gotta get a gimmick, something to let them know the old lion is roaring again, something bigger than anybody ever did before. Like we put a huge stage in the world's biggest casino, and we lay out, say, a couple of football...
L.B.M.: Recreational vehicle. Trailer to you, and 292 hookups mean places to plug in the lights. But let's get back to the show. We want a real blockbuster, lots of chests and feathers and special effects. I'll get them to build a stage just like the old days -biggest damn thing anybody ever saw, big enough to land an airplane...
...That's it! We'll start the show with a jet. Turn up the sound real loud, like a real landing-we should be careful, though, this new Sensurround business has actually made the dice jump off the table-and drag the plane onstage with beautiful stewardesses in gold bikinis on the wings...
...there, so we'll get Arden to line up about a hundred of them-nice tall ones or they'll look like pygmies on a three-story-high stage-and about four dozen terrific male dancers too. We need to have somebody wearing white tie, right? Then we get him to take off on some good old MGM movies, say a couple of musicals, an old Gable film, maybe an Astaire number...