Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Byrd: "Congress this year is reflecting a general feeling on the part of the American people that there have been enough new programs." Echoes O'Neill, among the stoutest of liberals: "The public wants to cut the bloat out of Government." Montana's newly elected Democratic Senator Max Baucus sums up: "The country is tired of rules, regulations, statutes and everything else that has to do with Government. None of it seems to be able to solve today's problems...
Veterans Administrator Max Cleland, 36, whose right arm and both legs were blown away by a grenade near Khe Sanh, has begun pushing programs to alleviate some of the Viet vets' problems. Among the initiatives...
...caused by the feelings that the service they rendered was meaningless and the nation's anguish and anger over Viet Nam were transferred unfairly to them. Not long ago, a Viet Nam veteran in Minneapolis was asked if there was anything he would particularly like to say to Max Cleland when the VA chief arrived in the city for a scheduled visit. The vet brooded for a moment, then replied, half sardonically, half plaintively: "Yes. 'When are we going to get our parade...
...charm lies in the breathless sense of discovery that infuses every shot, heightened with each passing reel. It's something Dino De Laurentiis' repulsive, self-conscious, exploitive remake never touches. And it's as good now, because today so much of it--Fay Wray's hysteria, the chases, Max Steiner's delightful but overdone score--seems tongue-in-cheek. And we got to suspend our disbelief. Really suspend it. Until we're yanked in. "'Twas Beauty killed the Beast," says Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) at the end of the movie, and the purity of this epitaph is convincing. King Kong...
Square in the middle of the dining room is a neon-lit glass refrigerator in which desserts whirl around and around. The wallpaper looks like a hybrid of 14th century French tapestry and Peter Max. And the 50 foot long expanse of picture window glass on one edge of the dining room looks out on a Huntington Avenue cab stand...