Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After he went abroad in 1970, he no longer watched television, so he no longer knew what day it was, or sometimes even the month or season. His main amusement was watching movies. He liked any kind of plane picture except Waldo Pepper. He thought The Blue Max was great. Hughes bought prints of all the James Bond pictures, but he liked only the ones with Sean Connery. Other favorites were The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Clansman and The High Commissioner. His main favorite was Ice Station Zebra, the story of a U.S.Soviet confrontation...
Cities, such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, may have more difficulty combatting the numbers game ?or bolita or the policy racket?because its networks of runners are big employers in the ghettos and amount to major community industries. Notes Max Renner, a New York investigation commission special agent: "Even when the numbers in Harlem was operated by white mobsters, 90% of the take stayed there." Thus powerful politicians from poor urban constituencies have traditionally opposed serious attempts to drive the numbers out of business...
HUGHES'S MOST IMPRESSIVE work and O'Donnell's greatest luck came with the children who played the campers. Their performances were natural, warm, restrained. Sam (Christopher Stewart), Stewart (Max Levine), and Roger (Michael Sloane) were all terrific. David M. Thomas as J.T. deserves some sort of long-distance half-pint Tony Award...
...though as the old saying goes, a fool can ask ten questions while a wise man is answering one. Generally, print journalists knew their subjects better than electronic journalists; the best-balanced team of questioners were the three who queried the vice-presidential candidates; the best single questioner was Max Frankel, who exhibited the sharpness he will bring to the New York Times editorial page when he becomes its editor in January. His question to Ford produced the famous gaffe on Eastern Europe, which Frankel, unbelieving, gave Ford a chance to correct. An equally pertinent Frankel question to Carter went...
Gerald Ford was on the defensive-and Jimmy Carter on the offensive-for most of the debate. The opening question amounted to Ford's best argument for his foreign policy. New York Times Associate Editor Max Frankel asked Carter what fault he could find with the foreign policy of an Administration that had improved U.S. relations with the Soviet Union and China and promoted steps toward peace in the Middle East and southern Africa...