Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MELVIN LAIRD, 52. Ford's closest friend while in the House, Laird (who held a Wisconsin seat for 16 years) provided advice and comfort for the new President during his trying early days in the White House. Laird could be useful in mending fences with Congress. When he was summoned by Nixon to restore order to the White House at the height of Watergate, he was not so much as brushed by the scandal. Unlike almost everyone else who got close to Nixon in his last year in office, Laird emerged with his reputation totally intact. A practical politician...
...study, whose results appear in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, was conducted by Dr. William C. Hinds, assistant professor of Environmental Health Engineering, and Dr. Melvin W. First, professor of Environmental Health Engineering...
Directed by MELVIN FRANK Screenplay by NEIL SIMON...
...movie is blank, unimaginative -think of every joke you have heard about New York over the past decade and here it is-and Bancroft cannot make much of the bits and scraps she is given. She is misdirected by Melvin Frank (A Touch of Class) to underline cartoon New York mannerisms: a threatened rasp in the voice that can easily twitch into hysteria, a battery of body movements that look like preliminaries for infantry combat...
...teach for a year at Manhattan U., ostensibly because of the controversy his film script has created in America. The name of the film, of course, is changed: Enderby has adapted Gerard Manley Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland for the screen, to be produced and directed by Melvin Schaumwein. Chisel Productions. His reasons for the crude adaptation is that the film might lead people to read the poem, which is recognizably better art. But instead, the film, warped by the director to include a nun's gang bang, provokes widespread rage when some youths charged with raping...