Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleveland and Columbus, crestfallen Glenn supporters shuttered their offices, and in Akron they refunded $20,000 worth of tickets to a $100-a-plate Glenn dinner. A few refused to give up, despite Glenn's insistence that "I am not playing games; I have withdrawn." Meeting in Columbus, a score of Glenn men decided to continue campaigning for him, since his decision to pull out came too late for his name to be removed from the ballot. "He's a guy who's gonna get better," said John...
...beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever?" she barks plaintively. Has he ever considered what it would be like if all he had ever seen were onion rolls and in walked a bagel? "That's my trouble," she says. "I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls...
...sort of appendix, a section entitled "A Speech Which Has Often Been Pondered But Never Delivered." The speech is superfluous and rather annoying, but it points up the skill with which the author has balanced suspense, satire, and philosophy throughout the rest of the book. Only when the plate marked "ethical implications" falls noisily to earth do we realize that we have been watching a balancing act all along...
...baseball team practiced in Briggs cage for about three weeks before spring recess. On the basis of this skimpy observation, coach Nat Harris cautiously says that his team has pretty good depth at the plate and on the mound. His chief worry, Harris believes, will be infield defense...
Hilary T. Harris, 34, also a New Yorker, is a slick and literate stylist and then some. His Seawards the Great Ships is a 29-minute color documentary on the shipbuilders of the Clyde in Scotland. He shows, rivet by plate, how ships are built. The picture won an Oscar two years ago. Harris also does shorter, impressionistic pieces. In Highway, he zips up, down, and under Manhattan's West Side Highway by night and day, sketching the rhythm of the roadway until it fairly comes alive. "My main preoccupation in film is with rhythm, and then color...