Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When anger rises at his ideas, his persistence, his showmanship, Califano pauses for a while behind his big desk and watches and listens. Often the phone rings, as it did after Califano's statement that people who continued to smoke were "committing slow-motion suicide," and Jimmy Carter says, "Don't worry. What you did was right." Recharged, Joe moves on, determined to make American life a little better than...
...after graduation in 1924, joined a touring theatrical company. He performed in more than 50 productions, and grew his trademark mustache for the role of a plantation owner. Age and the wear and tear of his long-running performance on the Capitol Hill stage have lately begun to slow the headliner, who used to rock House debates with melodramatic oratory...
...much that Harvard did the slow shuffle during this weekend's marathon; the other teams just picked up the tempo in events where the Crimson was weak--the breaststroke and the butterfly--and slowly dampened its spirits...
...marriage, separation treaties, post-marriage documents and agreements between lover-roommates of every conceivable gender. A premarriage contract, he suggests, might cover where the couple will live, who pays for what, how many children they will have. Cohabitants especially need legal agreements, he says, because the law has been slow to assist wronged partners in unconventional families...
...actress who plays Anna is right, Anna Karenina can scarcely fail, and this production rides, like a Moscow sleigh, on Pagett's splendor and charm. Like many other Masterpiece Theater series, it is slow in starting, and Scriptwriter Donald Wilson has created inexcusable confusions in the first three episodes. A viewer will even be hard pressed to tell when and where Anna and her lover...