Word: mention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting last December with Donald J. Ciapenelli, director of the chemical laboratories, Atkinson asked for space to pursue his "hobby in pyrotechnics" and showed Ciapenelli a list of chemicals he was using but did not mention nitroglycerine, Ciapenelli said yesterday...
...nearly impossible to sit through. Chase scenes, barroom brawls and barehanded boxing matches follow in dizzying succession, but the movie rarely lurches forward. Director James Fargo (Caravans) seems to delight in disorienting the audience: it is a major chore to figure out who is punching whom, not to mention why. For punctuation, there are running gags. Ruth Gordon pops up, without warning or justification, to do her foul-mouthed-old-lady routine; the Gray Panthers would be well advised to have an injunction slapped on her. An orangutan called Clyde does cute monkeyshines that recall the heyday of Jack Lescoulie...
...tolerable if it were at least effectively trashy television. But this show doesn't even rise to the level of juicy soap opera - a must for any miniseries from I, Claudius to Washington: Behind Closed Doors. There are too many scenes of cooking, cleaning and dusting, not to mention list less chitchat in underlit rooms. ("Lord have mercy, I forgot to trim the President's other sideburn," says a White House barber in a typical example of Backstairs wit.) Only a sketchy attempt is made to re-create the nation's capital during the periods covered...
Dukakis says any outside work he does will "be secondary to my work at the school." But his name keeps popping up in larger contexts, including mention as a possible member of President Carter's cabinet if any openings arise in the Housing and Urban Development or Justice Departments...
...ordinary "white bread woman," as Comedian Carol Burnett describes herself, chomped happily on corn-bread-not to mention black-eyed peas. Carol was down in Tennessee taping a CBS Valentine's Day special, Dolly and Carol in Nashville, with sweet-singing, statuesque Dolly Parton. As Grand Ole Opry fiddlers sawed away, the odd couple careened bravely through the lyrics of No One Can Pick Like a Nashville Picker Picks and No One Can Kick Like a Nashville Kicker Kicks. "I'm going crackers with that picks and kicks thing," grumbled Burnett. Nevertheless, she thinks she and the queen...