Word: seene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party's 1968 presidential nominee, Agnew was out working for his man?who was then New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. "Nelson Rockefeller," he said again and again, "is the man best qualified to be President." In response to "the ground swell of public opinion that I have seen developing," he sponsored a draft-Rockefeller organization, flying around the country in a Rockefeller-chartered plane to sing the New Yorker's praises. He was still singing when Rocky pulled out of the race on March...
...this world of ours, little nations must not be seen to triumph over great powers. Otherwise, there can be no triumph...
Ever since his first appearances with Chicago's improvisational Second City troupe, Alan Arkin has been doing a series of disappearing acts. The authentic Arkin vanishes into a part, never to be seen again. Like Peter Sellers, he has ample physical credentials for a cab driver but rather odd ones for a star. His blunt, anonymous face was born to grouse behind a steering wheel. His voice - often hidden behind a Puerto Rican or Mittel-European accent - is a grainy urban product, like soot. His hair is rapidly disappearing; his walk is a series of slumps...
...when you've seen one of Rockefeller's support demonstrations, you've seen them all. And when you've seen one Miami Beach hotel, you've seen them all. And when you've seen one GOP elephant, and one airline-stewardess-turned-Nixon-hostess, one real-life U. S. Senator close up, and one television camera you've seen--if not all--all that you care...
...instant, I felt like the Jewish barber played by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator when he was mistaken for Hitler. I thought the crowd was going to stomp on me the way I had seen another crowd stomp on Rockefeller the day before and the way I knew this one was itching to stomp on Reagan. And in a way, I wanted to get up there on somebody's shoulders and render a version of Charlie's corny speech in which I would tell all those Reagan supporters a thing or two about the problems of this nation...