Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Jimmy Carter will supply as an alternative, he says, is to help the United States to "be great again." The words are scary; they smack of the manifest destiny arrogance that led this country into the Philippines and, half a century later, into Vietnam. But Carter's call appears actually to be for a country that is great because is feeds and educates its poor, because its people are not divided into white and black, and because its power is used for selfless purposes abroad...
Both Carter and Ford, however, seem to be searching nervously for some firm political ground between the overstatements of American poverty, which, in the view of Carter foes, sometimes smack of demagoguery, and a voluptuous embrace of materialism...
...have been equally disastrous to play the lines straight with out inflective italics, thus pretending that they are not unutterably silly, which they are. Director Bill Gile has settled on the very sensible alternative of restoring a comic antique so that it does not pitiably creak with age or smack of cosmetic modernity...
...public life." John, now a practicing lawyer and part-time commentator on ABC's Good Morning America, had nevertheless steered clear of would-be lovers, she insisted. "He knows that I would be very tough on anyone like that." How tough? "I'd just smack the hell out of her, pull her hair out, kick her in the ass and throw her out the door. It would be very simple...
...last to "Footlinghts," women of stage, screen and song. These are women who knew how to play up to the camera, and their portraits are full of a charming vanity. An aging Helen Hayes, bedecked in gold satin, diamond jewelry and long white gloves, sits atop a throne set smack in the middle of Broadway. Mae West--well, Mae West is Mae West, and here she is shown staring, almost licking her lips, at some anonymous specimen of beefcake. Barbra Streisand once again arrogantly displays the-nose-I-wouldn't-get-fixed-but-I-became-a-star-anyway-so-there...