Word: show
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executive council and a leader of the movement, claims she will not be dissuaded even if Kennedy strongly vows his unavailability. Says she: "This is a draft movement, and the nature of a draft is to persuade a reluctant candidate he must run." Polls in the Granite State show that if the Senator does enter, even as a write-in, he would easily defeat the President...
...endorsed last month in Geneva, the White House abruptly switched signals and said the President would support the bill. The turnabout left White House Inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn in an impossible situation. Asked during House Agriculture Committee hearings if he considered the bill inflationary, Kahn replied: "Let the record show an embarrassed silence...
...years to reach maturity. Even when the females begin laying eggs, only about one in every batch of 10,000 survives; the larvae fall prey to a host of natural predators. To complicate the job of would-be lobster farmers, the creatures must be kept apart: in captivity they show as much appetite for each other as humans do for them. Says Marine Biologist Douglas Conklin: "They are mean, rotten, aggressive creatures...
...column: "Just one more script and that island in the Aegean would be mine. I wrote another script... No longer were we doing a musical about a paraplegic cabdriver who falls in love with a tollbooth collector at the Lincoln Tunnel. Somehow, inexorably, because there's no business like show business, the musical had turned into the story of a fast-food-chain heiress who falls in love with a Marine corporal during the Boxer Rebellion...
...instructive, "like being lost in a bog," Baker says. "I saw other musicals last year and sometimes asked myself, 'Didn't the producers and directors know they were awful?' I answered that question: 'No, you don't know.' I still think we folded the makings of a good show...