Word: palming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failing memory seems to have been the day he allegedly took a pocket tape recorder to Florida and taped a phone call to Chief of Staff James Baker III without telling him. Baker wasn't the only one to find that taping incident "unethical"; the district attorney of Palm Beach, where such taping may well be a felony, presently has the event under investigation. Similarly displeased are two Congressional committees and the Federal Services Administration, who are also looking over Wick's taping activities...
...quickly become a leader of the video field as well. But that eminence could be hard to achieve. Not only is the field already packed with formidable rivals like Sony, but new developments are occurring rapidly. In an apparent effort to upstage Kodak, RCA this week will unveil a palm-size video camera that comes with a separate recorder...
DIED. William Demarest, 91, vaudevillian and screen actor best known as the cantankerous, sweet-hearted, sourpussed Uncle Charley from 1965 to 1972 on TV's My Three Sons; apparently of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. He developed his sputtering, comic tough-guy persona in more than 100 films, notably including half a dozen Preston Sturges comedies...
...emulate and trash: Heaven Can Wait. God (the voice of Gene Hackman) sends a quartet of angels (led by Charles Durning) to earth to help a couple of mean-mouthed losers (guess who?). Nothing works: not the whimsy, not the melodrama, not even the food fight in the Palm Court of the Plaza Hotel. A stupefying shambles, Two of a Kind just noses out Staying Alive for Worst Picture of the Year...
Last year, Ingram says, "the Elis all began to lose interest in the third period. They wandered down to the palm trees near the beach with their martinis and spent the second half of the game watching the pelicans...