Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mild weather that prevailed in the rest of the country was perfect for the season's feasts and fairs. It was time for the Harvard-Yale game, U.S.C.-U.C.L.A., Nebraska-Missouri and a hundred aching clashes between rival high schools. There will be parades this week in Philadelphia, Houston and Hollywood, and of course the big Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. (Missing from that extravaganza, however, will be the familiar figure of Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney officials, who control appearances by replicas of the celebrated mouse, do not want him to become too familiar...
There will be a gala opening in Washington on Dec. 10, followed by a royal premiere in London on Dec. 13. The film will then open in 700 theaters in most of the English-speaking world, and the rest of the globe will wait until early next year. "It's a kids' movie that adults will go to that kids will like," is the rather convoluted way that Director Richard Donner, 48, explains Superman's appeal. "No," says Producer Ilya Salkind, 31, who often disagrees with Donner. "It's an adult picture that kids will...
...have a secretary chirp, "Please hold for Mr...." Baldrige offers a fairly quaint line for use in getting rid of a pest on the phone: "My staff informs me an emergency call is waiting for me on the other line. Please forgive me, and put in writing the rest of your thoughts." She is less than enthusiastic about recorded music being piped in to entertain a caller who is put on hold...
...quite knows how to behave with women without giving offense." Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz tells an appalling story of taking out a woman who, when the check came and Dershowitz went to settle up, started griping: "Are you trying to dominate me?" Such women should spend the rest of their lives dining alone, preferably in bad restaurants...
...commonest reaction among Americans to any mention of the British National Health Service (NHS) is that, together with the rest of the welfare state, it is responsible for Britain's post-war economic decline. Yet beyond this criticism, many Americans have little conception of what comprehensive national health services like those in Britain consist of, and cling to the conviction that socialized medicine is a bad thing. This tends to mean that they are willing to put up with a system that is costly, uneven, and in which the majority of the population are not even fully covered by health...