Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappointing. The underwater scenes in the picture are well-photographed but painfully slow. The gadgetry -- one and two-man underwater sleds, a yacht that sheds its cabin to become a hydroplane, and so forth -- does not seem especially ingenious. And Bond's "dead-pan quips" are exemplified by his remark after impaling a SPECTURE agent against a tree: "I guess he got the point...
...hours. On his fifth visit to Washington since Johnson took office, Wilson felt sufficiently at home to josh the President on a sensitive subject. When Johnson commented lightly on the Labor Party's precarious two-seat margin in Parliament, the Prime Minister shot back with a remark about Johnson's "86 votes"-a nearly accurate reference to the scandal-tinged 1948 Texas senatorial primary in which Lyndon squeaked through by 87 votes. The President protested: "You haven't been here six hours, and you've already taken one vote away from me." Retorted Wilson: "Mr. President...
...couple of days later, he told Peking to stop meddling in Indonesia's internal affairs, declared his nation neutral in the Sino-Soviet feud and brushed off Peking's protest over sackings of Chi nese shops in East Java with the remark that Indonesians had a right to be angry with the Red Chinese...
...argued that Schlesinger maintains his attack too protractedly for his own purposes, it is difficult to understand how these passages were taken last summer as a betrayal of the national interest. Obviously a President must be free to speak without his every remark being made public; just as obviously, an occasional revelation of this kind doesn't hurt. It is now four months since Schlesinger's revelation, and the sky has yet to fall upon the State Department building. And from the number of people who have stepped forward to give loud expressions of non-surprise at the disclosure...
Listening to the Bach Society Concert, one might have recalled Rossini's wry remark about Wagner: "He has his brilliant moments, yes--and his dull quarters of an hour." Yet the orchestra's successes, as surely as Tannhauser's, more than compensated for the generous lapses in between...