Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, who turned up at just the proper moment to rescue her from a tricky question about the Pans peace talks. Joan was in Hoosier land campaigning for Bayh's reelection, reminding her audiences that it was he who had risked his life to pull her husband Teddy out of the wreckage in that near-fatal light-plane crash near Springfield, Mass., tour years ago. At one rally she let her listeners in on a little family secret by introducing former Notre Dame President Father John Cavanaugh as "the best priest friend Ted and I ever...
Fifth Writer: "Yeah, poor girl should pull herself together...
Flaming Boosters. What emotion did he seek to convey? That question he usually begged with a grin. In essence, Kline and his fellows were creating a new artistic language, through the push and pull of the images and the very strokes of the brush, to express emotions that could not be put into words. But, as Kline found himself becoming a success, the task became more difficult. He could now afford linen, instead of cotton, canvas and real artist's pigments, but these, he found, produced a slickness that belied his deliberate crudeness. His compositions became larger and more...
...work for Morse's re-election. A few of the McCarthy stalwarts, however, are boycotting Morse as a result of his strong endorsement of Vice President Humphrey. Nevertheless, Morse supporters are counting on McCarthy-style house-to-house campaigning, along with some heavy spending on TV & advertising to pull Oregon's old populist through the toughest campaign he has ever fought...
Caper flicks, as the trade calls them invariably involve some lovable folk; who pull off an enormous and improbable heist, only to be foiled in the last reel by a freakish turn of fate. Disaster can come in many forms: a runaway poodle (The Killing), a cremated coffin (Ocean's 11), or a kid with a photographic memory (The League of Gentlemen). At their best, caper movies can be wry little existential parables; at their worst, they are merely two hours of closeups on nervous thieves and unyielding safe dials...