Word: showing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much harder is it to render it on film ready made for passive viewing in a theater. Without an insightful narrator or character who is willing and able to pronounce judgements on the characters, only the formal, though charming, Victorian plot and characters remain. Only seemingly simple appearances show through; each character looks the way he really is. Face value becomes of great value...
...befitted an ex-sportscaster and exactor, his delivery was as smooth and flawless as ever. Only when he told movingly of how his father had lost his job at Christmas time during the Great Depression did Reagan let his emotions show, nearly choking up. Vowed Reagan: "I cannot and will not stand by while inflation and joblessness destroy the dignity of our people." His voice also wavered at the same point in an identical TV speech broadcast that evening by about 90 stations, at a cost of some...
...Presidents to assume the office. His opponents figure that he is most vulnerable on this issue. Nonetheless, except for a slight thickening around his middle since 1976, he looks as fit as ever. His aides released a report of his last physical examination, in April, which showed no signs of coronary disease and a blood pressure of 120/80-a rate physicians consider excellent. He has a touch of arthritis in his right thumb and a minor respiratory allergy to pollen. Reagan's aides contend that the age issue has been exaggerated by the press, yet polls repeatedly show that...
With a fortune of well over $1 million, Ronald and Nancy Reagan live comfortably in an elegantly furnished, five-bedroom ranch-style house in Pacific Palisades. In the living room, the grand piano is covered with mementos of show business days, photographs of Old Friends Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Edgar Bergen. On the end tables are small glass dishes filled with the jelly beans that became his trademark as Governor. They are intended for guests. To keep down his weight, he rarely eats them now. Reagan is dressed casually, in slacks, a blue V-neck sweater and velvet slippers...
...trail the "mashed potato circuit," and he has been wandering along it for 15 years. Says he: "I have a feeling now that I don't get on planes. I get up in the morning and put them on, like a pair of pants. I wear them. In show business we used to say that if you don't sing or dance, you wind up an after-dinner speaker...