Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come up with that!" There seemed to be no way, in fact, that the Administration could rewrite the provision to overcome his opposition. After a recent two-hour session during which Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach sought to find some language that would be acceptable, Dirksen finally told him: "Nick, it's just no dice. I see no out that doesn't violate principle...
George Segal as Nick seems much too wide-eyed and innocent at the outset. He provides little in the way of transition to the sharper Nick that should emerge later. Still, Segal is at least adequate. Sandy Dennis as Honey overplays shamelessly, and only the relative unimportance of her role in the movie makes it possible to ignore her most of the time...
...revolution that overthrew Jango Goulart. True enough, he had a few bad moments when the reform-bent military regime started out with a purge of corrupt politicians, but his name never appeared on the purge lists. Friends among the top brass managed to cross it off in the nick of time...
...selective-service headquarters in Washington, then to California draft authorities. Hearing no word from anyone, Gary Wilson glumly packed his bags on Jan. 31, planned a farewell party, and prepared to report at 7:30 a.m. the next day to the Los Angeles induction center. But with nice nick-of-timing, the draft board phoned at 5:30 p.m. Gary William Wilson had been granted a IS(c) rating until June 19-the day after graduation. "I was very glad," Wilson understates...
...infectious Behan rhythm is unmistakable, and so is the Behan tongue. Mountjoy Prison, Strangeways Jail, bouts on the Left Bank, a party for a colleen celebrating her abortion, pimping in Harry's New York Bar in Paris, painting lighthouses, doping greyhounds, springing an I.R.A. mate from a British nick-all of this is mixed together every which way like an Irish stew. The stirrer has his thumb in the pot; it improves the taste...