Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brings on a wittily cynical charmer in the person of General Burgoyne, who is portrayed with silky urbanity by the multi-faceted George Rose. In addition to elongating a happy ending, Shaw has provided Burgoyne with a line worthy of the playwright's fellow Irishman, Oscar Wilde: "Martyrdom, sir, is the only way in which a man can become famous with out ability. " T.E. Kalem
...budget for electrics from $200,000 in the early 1970s to $35 million proposed for fiscal 1979, mostly to search for low-cost, lightweight, long-range batteries. All DOE will predict is that "there will be a significant number" of electrics around by the year 2000. Fill 'er up, sir? Naw, plug it again...
...chiefs. The admiral has briefed the President once or twice a week in hour-long sessions, usually alone. Turner prepares the agenda and spends ten to twelve hours reading background material for each session. According to a presidential aide: "Carter likes Turner's crispness, his grasp, his 'yes sir, no sir,' no-nonsense naval officer's style...
...shown publicly. Royal Heritage, which starts this week on PBS, was prepared by the BBC as its contribution to Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee last year. The Queen and several members of her family were persuaded to appear on camera and narrate generous portions of the series, with Sir Huw Wheldon, the former director of BBC television, doing the rest. Michael Gill, who produced such outstanding series as Civilisation and America, was in overall charge of the project...
...subject tried to be gracious. It is "a remarkable example of modern art," pronounced Sir Winston Churchill at the unveiling in Westminster Hall in 1954 of his 80th birthday present, a portrait commissioned by Parliament and painted by the famed English neoromanticist Graham Sutherland. But his remark was tongue in cheek, and the audience roared. Winnie thought the portrait, which had a gloomy, resigned-to-age air about it, made him look "half-witted, which I ain't." His dutiful wife Clementine put it out of sight in the basement and promised her husband that it would never...