Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Byrd struggled valiantly against a prolonged filibuster by opponents of the Administration's natural gas bill. He finally mustered more than the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture, which should have ended the debate. But opponents craftily offered countless amendments and delaying motions, requiring 116 time-consuming roll calls before the bill finally was put to a vote. The tactic, found permissible under the rules, has been used by both liberals and conservatives to frustrate efforts to end a filibuster...
...week war of nerves began, while everyone wondered: Would the city capitulate in time for Mardi Gras Day? One by one the parade dates came around and the floats did not roll. The few that did were forced to move to Kenner or some other shopping-center suburb, since Morial could not guarantee order in the downtown area. As Mardi Gras Day drew nearer, public support for the police waned, down from 67% in a local television poll two weeks ago to 17% last week...
...that someone like Elvis would travel around to get people to buy his music, but it's true. Nevertheless, it's nice that he plays for the little people, now that he's a big star--featured, of all places, on the TV special, "The Heroes of Rock and Roll...
Backing up the scientific ranks will be 20,000 amateurs with cardboard-box viewers or aluminized Mylar screens sold at fast-food outlets. (Without such precautions, sun gazers risk damaging their eyes.) Some will even usher in the event at a roc-'n'-roll celebration on an old armed forces base in Rivers, Man. But the music may be dirgelike. Weathermen are predicting only a 77% chance of clear skies over Winnipeg. As for more southerly latitudes, even a clear sky will not be of much help; as one Winnipeg observer puts it, the difference between a total...
...reputation. Frank Mouris' latest work is reminiscent of his landmark Frank Film, which which won the 1973 Academy Award for indpendent animation. Frank Film was an autobiography in cut-outs and double soundtrack, one of Frank's voices telling his story and the other counting as the years roll by. The cut-outs came from years of scavenging fellow animators' magazines looking for the same orange slices and TV's in the same advertisements, which he made into luscious photographic trails of his career. His new movie, Impasse, repeats the methods of Frank Film but recounts the battle...