Word: louds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Jones helped a rally for Rosalynn Carter in San Francisco by busing in 600 loud supporters, he was rewarded with a "Dear Jim" thank-you note hand written on White House stationery. Jones claimed to have received appreciative letters from Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson, and HEW Secretary Joseph Califano, among others...
...Safety and Health Administration. OSHA mandates in lavish detail characteristics that machinery must have rather than simply setting standards for safety on the job and letting companies devise their own ways for meeting them. On construction sites, the agency simultaneously demands that trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles have loud back-up horns and that workers wear hearing protectors to cut down noise levels. Although the agency has widely trumpeted its recent attempts to eliminate some of its sillier rules, many still remain...
...enjoy as Baldridge and Sargent charm their way through "Rosemary" and "I Believe in You," and you have an evening's entertainment. So what, you say, if this production seems to magnify all the problems of typical House shows--so what if the band screeches, too brassy and too loud, or that the set borders on Filene's-basement quality, or that the actors can't seem to navigate across a stage that is crowded enough to qualify as a Parris Island obstacle run--so what if the word "professional" doesn't quite apply. This is a House show...
...natural, an appropriate setting for this family. But Allen forces the issue, almost to the point of being a farce: when the father's new girlfriend (Maureen Stapleton) crashes in on the scene in flaming red and glitter, the contrast becomes too obvious, almost ludicrous. The ocean rumbles too loud and too often, even if the isolation of the beaches is such an appropriate setting. And in the last shots--after the mother is dead and buried and the new wife properly installed--the tranquility of the ocean and the family is so simple a device it seems merely trite...
...beetle's path. The more aggressive beetle would then use his horns as levers in an attempt to dislodge his opponent. Sometimes the defender flipped over on his back and locked horns directly with the aggressor. All the while, as the beetles lunged at each other, they made loud squeaking noises...