Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to go home and tell your farmers, your small businessmen and little plastic companies that you were down here trying to help them?" he asked. By passing the measure, the Democrats figured to satisfy angry demands from constituents that they do something to ease the energy pinch-and to pin political liability for killing the bill squarely on the President. Representative John Anderson of Illinois, a leader of the Republican opposition to the bill, declared that approval of the legislation "sets the stage for further partisan manipulation of the energy crisis...
Chess players are usually precocious small hairy people who never know what to do with their hands or knees. Unless chained down, a teen-aged tournament player will pinch his nails together, rock back and forth, and in the presence of other players, begin to mutter and giggle about opening variations and to tell juvenile jokes. As far as appearances went, we were golden. Our problem was that we weren't very good at chess...
President Nixon had invited the nine Market nations, plus Canada, Japan and Norway, to meet and work out a common program for easing the energy pinch. For three days-one more than planned-the Foreign Ministers of the 13 wrangled through rounds of formal speeches, a black-tie dinner at the White House, and a long series of private meetings and caucuses. In the end, they agreed to set up a "coordinating group" that will...
...story of an extraordinary friendship. In addition to the comfort of the bottle, Mrs. Kavanagh had Mrs. Biddulph, a regular drinking buddy whenever she was not serving short sentences for shoplifiting. The two women were different but complementary. Mrs Kavanagh was vulnerable because she was friendly. Her last pinch at the hands of the police came about because she made a public nuisance of herself by muzzily trying to shake strangers hands. Mrs Biddulph survives on a generalized anger about the state's institutuion compassion and the pathetic efforts of the well-meaning...
Gould's Marlowe is half-knight and half-clown, struggling against a city's corrupting power. He constantly mumbles to himself to convince himself that he's really a private eye, like someone else would pinch himself to make sure he's not dreaming. Marlowe's Los Angeles is constantly alight with all-night supermarkets, all-night traffic, all-night venality. He is awake to the phonies and moral bankrupts around him, and the audience sees L.A. as he sees it. The restless, light-drenched photography (by Altman veteran Vilmos Zsigmond), and nervy editing and soundtrack express the visual...