Word: petted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie cuts to the famous Monty Python dead parrot skit. This sequence reveals the fundamental problem with the movie at the very outset. The group's first full-length motion picture, And Now For Something Completely Different, included this skit, complete with props and the suitable atmosphere of a pet shop. Seeing this skit performed again on the bare stage of a London auditorium leaves you flat; watching a grown man repeatedly slam a stuffed parrot against a desk to prove its deceased state ceases to be funny after a while. The same can be said for the movie...
...undammed Life Force flow through Donnelly's performance. Donnelly captures the nuances of the aging process, the time when the patriarchal beard seems to wag the man. Yet throughout, the actor maintains a conversational urbanity that makes the show a fit companion for two of Shaw's pet abominations, brandy and cigars...
...legislation and debate. A master of the Senate's rules and precedents, Byrd hustles through an endless round of meetings with committee chairmen, powerful Senate barons and rebellious mavericks, trying to head off trouble. He pleads with recalcitrant Senators for support, does favors to pacify them, like scheduling their pet bills, or tries to put off action on controversial legislation until antagonists compromise on their own. During last year's session, Byrd's first as majority leader, he ran the chamber with a firm and sure hand that had not been seen since the days when Lyndon Johnson was majority...
...25th Harvard reunion in 1945 Woods said "Politics is my pet peeve. I have no use for the high-handed way in which politicians, in general, operate for their personal gain. Never have so many received so much for doing so little...
...gold and green sweatsuit, and a T shirt emblazoned SAVE OUR FISHING FLEET. Beaming happily, she feeds her Beltsville White turkeys (one of which she will later carve with gusto at her table); points proudly to three eggs freshly laid by her Rhode Island Red hens; strokes her pet sow, which is ready to have piglets and then become part of her larder; hails her goat April, a daily source of milk; and shows all the joy of a Washington dirt farmer in her modest (65 acres) spread. Then she marches through a stand of Douglas fir to the slate...