Word: plug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instance, against Penn, Sanders rotated Lenny Adams in for Bill Carey, Carey for a sluggish Lou Silver and Silver for Tony Jenkins. The next night, it was Adams for Silver, Silver for Carey, etc. The pull-and-plug logic has worked, in one sense...
...long after President Nixon created his special investigations unit in June 1971 to plug "leaks" of classified information, one of the group's members, in a wry acknowledgement of his assignment, tacked up a sign on his door: PLUMBER. Thus the appellation "plumbers" came into being, and eventually such nefarious activities as tapping telephones, burglarizing offices and fabricating State Department cables came to be known as the work of the "plumbers...
...recommended. "He's a young dynamo." Goldin did not use this slogan in 1973. Maybe he thought his performance in '69 showed that voters don't like youth. In the year of the energy crisis, maybe he was afraid someone might take him at his word and plug him in. Goldin did his best to exude energy during his inaugural address, though, punching the air as though he hoped to grow up to be Muhammad Ali and setting a new city record for irrelevant Biblical quotations in a single speech. But it just wasn't the same, somehow, Goldin...
Last week, I began a plug for Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now, which is playing first-run in Boston, but it was cut short for lack of space. This film takes a simple Daphne du Maurier story and raises it above its original status as a thriller, achieving a level of visual drama rarely encountered in any film. This is a film of exceedingly dramatic imagery and psychological complexity. The story line is, at times, almost non-verbal, because the dialogue is scant and simple and because the images are photographed and edited with such finesse that most...
...have been accidentally picked up on the tape while it was being played back for listening or transcribing. Nor, he said, is it likely that the tone, or hum, was recorded during the original taping, since it did not blanket all of the conversation. For a partial malfunction, a plug, or electrical connection, would have to cut out accidentally and just as accidentally resume normal operation after an 18-minute lapse...