Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each of life in the White House as the main reasons for the breakup. Chip, they said, is "just a kid" whose head was turned. Gregarious and the most politically attuned of the Carter offspring, he thrived on the razzle-dazzle of campaigning, particularly the opportunities to meet show-business stars, drink a lot of beer and raise some hell during his off-hours. He even envisioned a political future of his own some day. Since he went to work for the Democratic National Committee as a $26,500-a-year staff member, Chip has been an exuberant fund raiser...
...took Ralph Bakshi, Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle (a Tolkien biographer) to show me what people who don't like Tolkien see when they read his books: A world of ludicrous little people, pedantic wizards and interminable sword and sorcery cliches. Conkling and Beagle have a great burden to bear for their treacherous adaptation of Tolkien's story, but the truly responsible party is Bakshi...
...amplification; it runs well past half a million words, every one of them revered as holy writ by Tolkien's vast army of fans. What is more, each one of these devotees has strong opinions on what Middle-earth and its inhabitants look like. Show them a hobbit that is not their idea of a hobbit, then run for cover...
...situations," Norman Rockwell once declared, "and that's about all I can do." From the day in 1916 when he walked apprehensively into the offices of the Saturday Evening Post?already a magazine circulating 2 million copies a week?carrying a velvet-wrapped bundle of paintings and sketches to show to Editor George Lorimer, Rockwell was greeted by nothing but success. He began his career as a professional artist at a time when large-scale magazine color illustration, thanks to radically improved printing technology, had become one of the keys to mass culture?the television, one might...
...Paul II: "He reminds me of a north Texas high school gung-ho football coach in his late 40s who has been through hard times but takes it with a wonderful spirit." The Pope, says Michener, "isn't pompous at all, but quietly strong." Also humorous. "If this show goes well," John Paul II told Michener, "I'll expect a phone call from Hollywood...