Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet members. Pat Harris' staff had some anxious moments when she was summoned to the Oval Office. Asked Carter: "Was 10 a.m. convenient?" Said Harris: "Even if it weren't, Mr. President, I would be there." On her return to HUD, she told her staff: "There is no reason for any of you to be concerned as a result of what happened." Indeed not; she had just been promoted...
...prices so that domestic gasoline and heating fuel prices would rise to world levels (Americans still pay less than one half as much for gasoline and fuel oil as Europeans) and an emphasis on expanding nuclear energy. Commented Switzerland's Journal de Geneve: "The President feared, not without reason, that decontrol would push U.S. inflation to an intolerable level. But that also would have been a return to truth in pricing, which is the basis of American capitalism...
...legendary performing style. Peter Townshend plays his guitar by rotating his arm like a vertical helicopter blade; Moon grins and leers through drum solos; John Entwistle, like all bass players, stands expressionless. You can see all this in The Kids Are Alright; but you miss the music. For some reason, Jeff Stein--who put the movie together--chose a few very good film sequences and mixed them up, without any sense of order, with a lot of trashy ones...
...album from the movie has little of interest for anyone who has several old Who albums; it might serve as a good "best of" collection for those who don't. But even in its two-records-for-little-more-than-the-price-of-one format, its chief reason to exist seems to be to make a little more money for the band. Townshend has to keep up his monthly payments to his guru somehow...
...cover story in the Washington Post magazine recalling that unsuccessful interrogation, both the question and the Senator's coy answer will be analyzed countless more times. The punditry should reach a crest this week as journalists almost everywhere take yet another look at Kennedy and his intentions. The reason for the outpouring: it will be exactly ten years since a car driven by Kennedy plunged off the bridge at Chappaquiddick, next to Martha's Vineyard, and a young female aide drowned...