Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are those of us in Alcoholics Anonymous who rejoice in our sobriety. At a recent dinner dance at a newly dedicated Al-Anon Club, a woman was heard to remark that it was not she but her husband who had been the problem drinker. She herself had never tasted alcohol in all her life. "Oh, what a shame," replied a veteran boozer sadly. "Then you'll never know how good it feels to recover...
Early TV laurels went to CBS, which on Wednesday devoted most of its 60-minute Morning News and an hour-long special that night to the transcripts. In both broadcasts the network made remarkable use of clips from the Watergate hearings and past presidential speeches. Viewers were treated to videotapes of the President and H.R. Haldeman last summer denying that "hush money" had been authorized for Watergate defendants and videotapes of John Dean testifying to the contrary before the Ervin committee last June. Then Dan Rather read a Nixon remark to Dean from the transcripts: "Just looking at the immediate...
...This is an opportunity to open a new page in relations between our countries," observed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat when he accepted the credentials of Hermann F. Eilts, the U.S.'s first ambassador to Egypt in seven years. Sadat's remark was an understatement. Washington-Cairo relations have been improving so fast that it has been more like opening a new book...
...with Marks contributing a section on relations between the press and the CIA. They submitted the manuscript to the agency in August 1973. It was returned with 339 deletions indicated. Some of the excisions were baffling or perhaps simply inexpertly done. Chapter 2, for example, begins with a deleted remark by Henry Kissinger. Yet another passage makes clear that he was discussing a CIA project to prevent the 1970 election of Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens...
...Death of Mary Queen of Scots," "The Spanish Inquisition," "The Argument Clinic," and "Eric the Halfabee," but there's nothing like that on this album. The best scene is an Oscar Wilde party where each guest insults the Prince of Wales and then claims someone else made the remark. "Your majesty is like a stream of bat piss," James MacNeill Whistler comments, and Wilde is forced to explain: "I simply meant, your majesty, that when all is dark, you shine out like a shaft of gold." And the Monty Python stand-by of snappy answers to stupid questions is still...