Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good old Uncle Sam! It's a relief to see this gentle giant flexing his muscles once in a while. By telling Iran to take its oil and shove it, Carter gained the respect and admiration of many Europeans, both for himself and his country...
...emotional excess aren't its best, and the Loeb cast is strong precisely where the script is strong: situational comedy. The first act drags a bit, but both second and third build to those frenzied, crowded scenes into which Kaufman is always tossing one more character. Both Cantor and Sam Samuels as Wolfe, the family's agent, have a knack for comic timing, and Wilber drops off-hand insults like time-bombs. Jeffrey Horwitz and Mario Aieta, as the men in the actress's lives who are forever barred from understanding their calling, receive no help from the script...
...past two weeks offer Jimmy Carter's bi-partisan legion of opponents an almost irresistible target for sniping. All a skillful stump speaker has to do is lament "the decline of American power and prestige," and his listeners will grit their teeth at the memory of Uncle Sam, a goat's skull for a head, burning in effigy in Tehran while the perpetrators, in a dramatic gesture of their discipline and outrageousness, collect trash in Old Glory...
...week's end South Korea buried Park with a somber, five-hour state funeral punctuated by wailing sirens. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and President Carter's son Chip joined representatives from 42 countries. The presence of the opposition party leader Kim Young Sam was evidence that the mourning period had brought South Koreans a time of political truce. A traumatic bloodbath was behind them, but they had every right to be apprehensive about its uncertain consequences...
They, up at Harvard, were sucking in millions of taxpayers' dollars from Uncle Sam during wartime for University expansion, but they didn't give a hoot about providing their student population with dormitories and/or housing facilities. Only under Vellucci pressure did they finally enbark upon a program to build housing for students and faculty. But that was after they had caused a serious crisis in the Cambridge housing market. That was right after World...