Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is something chickenhearted about this backing away from the sort of big finish that pictures like this implicitly promise. One cannot help thinking that the producers were afraid of making drama too strong for the family audiences that PG ratings pull in. The result, however, is a film of small appeal to any audience...
...also contributes heavily to periodic papers called "National Intelligence Estimates," which attempt to pull together the expertise of all the U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies, including those in the military services, on specific topics. The agencies' main aim has been to assess Soviet strategic capabilities and, more significant, Russia's intentions. These reports were read critically by Kissinger, who sometimes penciled in the margin "flabby" or "bureaucratic bullshit." They are still held in low esteem at the White House...
...home, dropping "little messages" all over the place. Barbra was very peeved at the report, she says in a rambling set of liner notes. Accordingly, she set to work with Songwriters Ron Nagle and Scot Matthews on a number that "would accommodate my feelings about this kind of 'pull-the-wool-over-the-eyes-of-the-public journalism.' " As for the rest of the Superman album, what can Barbra say? Only this: "Clark Kent, eat your heart...
...distance down the left-field line, right-center matches left-center, and a plain green 6-ft. high fence borders the outfield all the way around. The older parks were tailored for certain kinds of hitters--Yankee Stadium's short right field porch beckoned invitingly to left-handed pull hitters, while the seemingly limitless expanse in center field was known as "Death Valley." The Anaheim style spurns these sorts of small quirks in favor of a monotonous, unimaginative, "equity...
...middle-class Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Ill., 800 students from Bogan High School gather in the ballroom of the towering Sheraton-Oak Brook Hotel. Looking on genially, Principal William Scheid says, "This is the night they pull out all the stops." Senior Donald McNeff does just that as he arrives with his date in a chauffeur-driven limousine. He is wearing a white tux and top hat, and he is carrying a cane. Delighted by creating a momentary sensation, he explains: "I wanted to have some fun for once. Everywhere we stopped, people freaked out." McNeff has arranged...