Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy's mother, "Miss Lillian." gave a continuous round of interviews. "I don't mind the questions at all," she confessed. "I like them a lot." A little too much perhaps for her son's taste. She offered a novel account of how he first declared his intention of seeking the presidency. Clad only in his shorts one night in 1973, he put a foot on her bed and started to speak. "Take your foot off the bed." Miss Lillian commanded. When Jimmy said that he would run for President and win, she thought he must...
...Miss Lillian was also free with advice for Jimmy. Her vice-presidential choice was Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson, chairman of the platform committee. "He's so good-looking," she explained. "He speaks so good and handles himself so well." After addressing the Gray Panthers, an organization for promoting the cause of older people, she said Jimmy should help senior citizens if he is elected. "I want him to get into that because I'm gettin' old so fast...
...Miss Lillian became a reporter herself for Georgia's Columbus Ledger (circ. 30,000). She recorded her impressions on tape, which were then phoned to the paper and put in print. On meeting Jane Fonda, she reported saying: "Jane, maybe the reason we're getting along so beautifully is that we're both so controversial." She described her reaction to the convention: "You know I felt it was a sacred thing I was looking...
During the 20-minute meal we talked about many different things, Mondale speaking with typical senatorial dispatch, my fellow delegate abnormally reticent out of the same nervousness that made me unusually talkative. We told him how the Mississippi delegates' high image of their senator, James O. Eastland (D.-Miss.) was dashed. Eastland had been talking on the phone behind a cloud of cigar smoke when the two arrived in his office. He motioned to them to sit down, saying "Be with you in a minute boys." And then, after hanging up the phone, an explanation: "Sorry for making you boys...
Drawing freely from the classic characters of the whodunnit genre, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Miss Marples, Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles, and Earl Derr Biggers's Charlie Chan are refurbished by Simon and his all-star cast, and introduced as Miss Marples (Elsa Lanchester), Milo Perrier (James Coco), Sam Diamond (Peter Falk), Dick and Dora Charleston (David Niven and Maggie Smith) and Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers). These, "the world's greatest detectives" have been brought together under one roof at the invitation of Mr. Lionel Twain, a fiendishly eccentric, rich, and rather repulsive...