Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gauge of how relations between the White House and the press have changed comes in a reminiscence by Max Frankel, who recently left the New York Times Washington bureau to become the paper's Sunday editor. Writing in the Columbia Forum, Frankel recalls that during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, John Kennedy personally requested that the Times temporarily withhold exclusive information. His reason: if the Russians discovered prematurely how much the U.S. knew about their installations in Cuba, they would "take some action -like activating the missiles -and force him to attack." The request seemed reasonable. The previous...
...smoke rings for a quarter of an hour, and then stub out the butt with a gesture so incisive that the wretched author resolves to forswear literature and apprentice himself to a tree surgeon. But Sheed is also a novelist himself, so skilled that a few years ago, in Max Jamieson, he managed to write a strong and eloquent novel whose main character was a critic. The feat was the equivalent of successfully memorializing a dentist, and the decision on all sides was that Sheed was a marvel...
...proved that some things don't change. The farmer is still America's great mythical figure. Thomas Jefferson said farmers were the backbone of the nation. In the ensuing 200 years, whenever Americans imagined their national virtue had strayed, they looked for it in the countryside--right up to Max Yasgur's farm. Not that these romances kept city people from squeezing farmers to death. Massive "agribusiness" and a few stubborn, independent souls are all the growing economy has left us of America's rural wellsprings of virtue...
...FROM YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS Directed by MAX LIEBMAN...
...Max Liebman, who produced Your Show of Shows, has compiled this film with a craftsman's eye for pacing the laughter. It begins slowly, with a modest bit of domestic conflict in which Imogene Coca, looking, as ever, like your high-school dietician, must tell Caesar, her husband, that she has wrecked his beloved car. From there the film builds rapidly to an unlikely skirmish in a movie theater, a board meeting presided over by a chairman concerned only with his lunch, and a fond parody of a silent film called The Sewing Machine Girl. Finally there...