Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garroting the model-cities program as well. President Johnson had requested $662 million for his showcase exercise in creative federalism, which is aimed at encouraging cities to draw up their own plans for the rehabilitation of neighborhoods. The Appropriations Committee excised nearly two-thirds, leaving only $237 million. A motion to eliminate all funds except a token $12 million for planning was narrowly defeated...
BLACK COMEDY. Fireworks are best in the dark, and when the lights blow out in a London flat, a situation fraught with friction sets off sparks of hilarity. An agile and acrobatic cast keeps Peter Shaffer's latest dramatic exercise in amusing motion...
...Jury Returns to Vidal's Washington, D.C. Once he has mastered something-scuba diving, archery and flying-he tends to drop it and move on. Right now he is playing the drums to stereo-set accompaniment, studying astronomy with his 2.4-inch Unitron telescope, and fiddling around with motion-picture photography and video taping...
When he begins to talk of his career, he loses the poise and tough-minded agility with which he confronts Vietnam. "I want to win Academy Awards and do great things on the screen," he says. There is a desperate, almost pathetic, eagerness to do "significant motion pictures" with the New Wave. He speaks with pride of the ten movie offers he received this spring, but it turns out that all were Hollywood productions. One wants to tell him that he is just too good-looking, too smooth. The New Wave doesn't come after the Robert Vaughns, and Academy...
When they sing, it is a machine in six-part fluid motion. They concentrate hard, intense craftsmen, conscientious. You are sure this is the best they have ever done. It is the best they have ever done...