Word: ring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bellotti, despite the debits of the PCM-MBM affair, has, in turn, some considerable credits. His effort in consumer protection have helped thousands throughout Massachusetts. Bellotti indicted members of a huge arson ring and 26 politically connected corporations and individuals for stealing state vocational education funds. He led 46 states in obtaining a $40 million settlement against General Motors for switching engines on unsuspecting buyers...
...some 700 million Roman Catholics. As the Cardinals of the church filed forward to pay him homage, he spoke warmly, and often at length, with each, disregarding the presence of television cameras. The most electric moment came when Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski knelt to kiss the papal ring. John Paul lifted his stern old mentor to his feet, embraced him, then kissed the Polish primate's own ring...
...really wanted to see the female boxing. But when I arrived I found out it was the last attraction of the evening. Johnson set up his P.A.s amidst odd mannequins and a tapedeck which backed up his vocals. The boxing ring was 20 feet in front of him, and the mingling rock press and refreshment bar was just beyond the ring...
THEN THE SERIOUS stuff begins, as the Boston rock press and assorted groupies from punks to spaceshots gather between the boxing ring and Peter, who starts, "Oh wow, man, look at this...looks like I'm back home...(wriggles back, sticks out his tongue and rolls his hollow eyeballs out from a thin, benny-worn face) spaced out again...
...Collection (Oct. 25, PBS, 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Not terribly much happens during this hour-long play by Harold Pinter. Phones ring at odd times of night. A London boutique owner unexpectedly drops in on a dress designer who lives in a baroque town house down the road. Two men almost stage a duel with delicate cheese knives. A husband fears that his wife may have had an affair in a hotel room in Leeds. Not much happens during The Collection, but by the time the play is over at least three lives have been shattered. That's the wonder...