Word: pullings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completely unconvinced that the tax bill is necessary or desirable. He profoundly disagrees with Johnson's policy of attempting to finance the Viet Nam war and domestic social reforms simultaneously, insists that spending will have to be reduced somewhere. "If I asked the American taxpayer to pull in his belt," Mills said after the. Rusk-Fowler visit, "I would expect the Government to do the same thing." Since the Johnson Administration feels that it cannot sweat anything out of the war budget, the effect of Mills's position has been to bring the Great Society to a sudden...
...convinced that Khe Sanh cannot only be held, but that Giap will suffer crushing losses in manpower if he tries to take it. Giap's alternatives to a direct attack are either to pull back and miss his chance or to sit in the hills with his mortars and artillery and try to bleed Khe Sanh to death in daily barrages. At week's end Khe Sanh took minor shelling while the two sides waited and carefully watched each other. The U.S., slightly apprehensive, was ready for an attack?and even hopeful that Giap would strike. As for Giap...
While Lyndon Johnson will be able to pull some polls from his pocket to show that his popularity has begun an upswing after a long decline, Harold Wilson's notices are dominated by those embarrassing cartoons. The most telling one, run in the Daily Mail, was a biting play on names, involving Wilson and Britain's Great Train Robber Charles Wilson, who was captured in Quebec two weeks ago. The cartoon showed two trusties chatting outside Robber Wilson's jail cell: "Like the proverb says, Fingers, you can fool some of the people some of the time...
...Billy Baldwin. "I approve of permitting the wrong note in a room in order to achieve a personal touch." One of the benefits of the contemporary mood for mixing and matching is that it allows personal touches to be at home. Often they are exactly what is needed to pull a room together and make it both alive and liveable...
...with ideas, but not enough knowledge of craft to successfully execute them. For Nichols, each cut becomes a major problem of how to move from one shot to the next, a question of alternatives and careful choice: a zoo scene ends dismally on coy shots of monkeys; a zoom pull-back of Benjamin waiting on campus for Elaine is effective until we realize that Nichols has included it in order to effect a trick dissolve transition to the next scene; unable to end a breakfast scene legitimately, Nichols covers it with an easy laugh by cutting on the carefully timed...