Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of serious note, it was extremely saddening to learn of the passing of several members of Lynyrd Skynyrd last week, and extremely distressing to learn that seven billion copies of their (in context) tasteless new album, Street Survivors--the cover of which depicts the group going up in flames, and which was billed as a "smash hit" in an ad in the Times two days after the accident--have been hustled into immediate production. Record company types can be a sick group of people, what...
...Administration's push on the Middle East took place against a backdrop of ominous new fighting between Israeli and Palestinian forces in southern Lebanon. This provided an extra note of urgency as the first visitor, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, arrived in Washington after a mysterious side trip for some personal diplomacy of his own. He was followed by his counterpart from the most moderate of Israel's adversaries, Ismail Fahmy of Egypt. This week, when Carter and Vance meet with Jordanian Premier Mudar Badran and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam, the talk may turn tougher. Khaddam...
Moving as this story often is, the film suffers from compression. In the effort to confine the action to a single day, the screenwriters lean on stagy plot contrivances that are endemic to old-fashioned plays. Mastroianni's performance adds another synthetic note: this fine actor works hard, but seems miscast as a defeated and dejected homosexual...
...their study the researchers also note that "as many as half of the domestic cats in free-roaming populations have evidence" of some infection with feline leukemia virus...
...House. Powell reported that he had told Carter that his action had been "inappropriate, regrettable and dumb-and the President did not disagree with my assessment." As Powell also apologized to the Washington press corps, Hamilton Jordan slipped a chrome-plated artillery round onto the podium. Attached was a note: "Although you get close to getting lead poisoning from biting the bullet, you won't. This, too, shall pass." It was signed, "Bert...