Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mature Caron, who met Chip in 1970 when both were working on Carter's campaign for Governor, resented her husband's absences while she was usually left at the White House with the baby. Said a friend: "Chip likes a good time. He likes females. When one person mostly stays home and the other goes out and grabs the excitement and attention with both hands and all ten toes - well, that's a problem." Caron found living in the spotlight uncomfortable. Finally, she decided to leave...
...fact, the treatment of Fats displays considerable creativity. The camera photographs him like a real person, so that he seems to change expression and even react to individual lines. His presence enlivens the generally charmless Magic, though not even he can save the unhappy and unsatisfying climax. Somebody -- or several somebodies -- blundered badly with this film. The most intelligent thing in it is the dummy...
...attack Erma Bombeck is not only un-American but antimotherhood and antifamily. Fie to the person who would deprive me of a good chuckle while I try to civilize my children...
Gadfly. Definition: a usually intentionally annoying person who stimulates or provokes others, especially by persistent, irritating criticism. Example: Sidney Wolfe, director of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group...
Drugs and thugs, a missing person and a backchatting investigator also dominate Cocaine and Blue Eyes. Fred Zackel's sprightly first novel, set mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area, combines the story of a Pacific Heights dynasty, corporate shenanigans, Chinatown gangs, a spectrum of sex, aging flower children, Mafia money and the houseboat life in Sausalito. The result is as nerve-rattling as a full-throttle auto chase from Grant Avenue to Fisherman's Wharf...