Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Camp followers, nary a leak to plug...
...might be tolerable, but his lyrics rarely rise above the cute. ("The people ... need to adore me/ So Christian Dior me," sings Evita to her couturiers.) The show's structure is clumsy. In addition to the narration and flashbacks within flashbacks, Rice introduces an irrelevant character just to plug his best song (Another Suitcase in Another Hall). That sort of contrivance hasn't been seen in a musical since Carol Haney sang Hernando's Hideaway in The Pajama Game...
...Canadian counterparts, who could not get away with printing something like the Pentagon papers. As for American public servants who disclose Government information, they can land in jail only if the information harms the national defense (though just what material should be classified secret remains hotly debated). To plug less serious leaks, the U.S. has tried to use other tools. Example: Snepp was not charged with disclosing classified information but with violating his secrecy oath, which the CIA, State, Treasury, Defense and other agencies all have in varying forms...
...this revival may actually tarnish the Murrow legend. The years have not been kind to Person to Person. As one watches Murrow pay his electronic "visits" to famous homesteads, it is hard to ignore the man's obsequiousness. He laughs at his guests' every joke; he helps plug their new books; he hypes their every trivial accomplishment. On these shows Murrow is every bit as lightweight as Mike Douglas-though at least he refrains from picking up a hand mike and belting out songs...
L.B.M.: Recreational vehicle. Trailer to you, and 292 hookups mean places to plug in the lights. But let's get back to the show. We want a real blockbuster, lots of chests and feathers and special effects. I'll get them to build a stage just like the old days -biggest damn thing anybody ever saw, big enough to land an airplane...