Word: pleasers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correspondence was released to the press. Then Pompidou went to a caucus of the newly elected Gaullist Deputies in the National Assembly. Most of them were angry that a vote getter as effective as Pompidou had been sidetracked in favor of a man who is anything but a crowd pleaser. But Pompidou, though he was bitterly hurt by De Gaulle's treatment, remained loyal. "It is not for us to question his decisions," Pompidou told the Deputies. "It is for the President, and him alone, to name the Premier...
...skill at twirling and tossing dough ten feet into the air made Pizza Baker Camillo Calogero a consistent crowd pleaser at a Lynbrook, N.Y., pizzeria. Then, one day last September, his neck was broken in an auto accident; he was no longer able to make the flamboyant motions needed to fling high the pizza dough. The 33-year-old father of three children sued for damages. Rejecting a defense claim that pizza can be simply flattened on a table with the hands, and considering other injuries to Calogero, a twelve-man jury awarded him $335,000. At his old salary...
Once on, Liller performed an old Nat Sci 2 crowd-pleaser on Carson. Sitting the comedian on a piano stool with two weights in his hands, he spun Carson around on stage, demonstrating how Carson speeded up with the weights close to his chest and slowed down when they were farther away...
...been customary for Harvard this year there was a spark of life late in the game, but, also as usual, it wasn't bright enough. Crowd-pleaser Bobby Johnson led a spirited assault which cut the Quaker advantage to six with six minutes left...
...ranging from Trinidad-Tobago to the Soviet Union, sent 4,132 works of art. The U.S.'s lavish convocation of nearly 20 popartists' work, called "Environment U.S.A.," was selected by Brandeis University's William Seitz and bankrolled by the Smithsonian; it is easily the biggest crowd pleaser of the lot, although only one American, Jasper Johns, won a minor ($2,220) award. The U.S. exhibit, with its garish colors, ghoulish assemblages and grotesque figures, comes across as an eerie, lunar, angst-filled anti-advertisement for the Great Society. It also shows what dozens of artists representing other...