Word: nods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything off-guard, because it is so well-planned. Even J.H. Bigham ("a cripple like yourself") wouldn't have any trouble getting around or getting "the best cuts of meat, etc." In the center of Mouseville is the hall of the American presidents where 38 life-sized electronic dummies nod and fold and unfold arms while the Battle Hymn of the Republic plays on the sound system. Ike and Harding and Lincoln and Uncle Baines stand there as dream images to be lit up every hour on the hour for a group that has waited in line for two hours...
...both former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris and Sargent Shriver, who, with 11 and 9 per cent of the Democratic ballots, respectively, became darkhorses, at best, for the nod in Madison Square Garden in July--Shriver's malapropos Biblical invocation that, "Like Lazarus, I've risen from the experts' graves," notwithstanding...
...quick./Then let me sleep./...and all the soft windows of the neighborhood/are darkening, one by one." There's a snake in the poem--it is embodied by the restless musicians and their instruments, by a vaguely threatening and depraved woman. And the poet includes a quiet nod to Miles Davis--his recording on Sagan's record player just might be the source of her vision...
...count on his health holding up for another campaign (see MEDICINE). If he is denied the Democratic nomination-a virtual certainty-he is not sure what he will do. Though splinter groups want to run him on a third-party ticket, he has not yet given them the nod, and he may never do so. He would have no chance of winning, and if he were to draw votes about equally from the two major parties, he would not be in a position to serve as kingmaker for either of them...
There are a number of other programs scrambling around down there in the pits with A.A.G. It is difficult, for example, to decide which is the worst new sitcom. For sheer witlessness, the nod should go to LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY, (ABC, Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.), a spin-off from Happy Days, in which the title gals (one cannot bring oneself to use a more dignified term) are employed in a Milwaukee brewery in the early 1960s-a situation about which we are for some reason supposed to feel nostalgia. Penny Marshall, who plays Laverne, has chosen not to characterize...