Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House; more important, he seems to be at home with himself, secure enough to take criticism and attack without resorting to the vengeful tactics of previous Chief Executives, much less the illegal activities of Richard Nixon. His enemies' list, if he has one, must be the shortest on record. By his own behavior, he has blotted out the sordidness of the Nixon years. It was no inconsiderable achievement to free the Republican Party from the stigma of Watergate and deprive the Democrats of an issue they might have used for many years to come. Ford has, in effect...
...that disbelief be willingly suspended; he wants it lynched. He offers up a woebegone five-man softball team (the "world renowned Barooklyn Bimmmmmboos") scrounging around for the carnival trade in scraggly Southern hamlets. Not only do the Bimbos play their exhibitions in drag, but they boast one of the shortest shortstops in captivity: Midget "Pogo" Burns, a onetime private detective now running from the giant black pimp he once shot up in San Francisco...
There was also a poetry recital of sorts including the "shortest poem ever written on what it's like to be as great as Ali." "Me? Whee...
...Martin of the mid-seventies--but something's done it. Probably just a silly decision to concentrate on a single plot, making the whole hour and a half seem like one extended joke that very quickly loses its savor. Monty Python's best routines have often been its shortest, and the longer ones--like "The Piranha Brothers" and "Fairy Tale"--were very often the only losers on their records. And Now for Something Completely Different was extremely funny, leaping from skit to skit without worrying much about continuity. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, by contrast, has a single unified...
...orphans to the U.S. Daly has long been a benefactor of Vietnamese orphanages and offered to pay for the flight himself. But Saigon-based officials of the U.S. Agency for International Development told Friends of All Children that Daly's DC-8 would be unsafe. On the shortest notice, Daly turned to two other orphan agencies, which quickly produced 60 children for the trip. Without clearance from either Saigon or Washington, Daly's planeload took off for Oakland; by week's end most of the children were in their new American homes...