Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really know what I'm going to do afterwards." A silence fell on the back of the bus. But not for long as Mike added, "I guess I'll just pull out all my teeth, grow a beard and become a prostitute." Mike never let a solemn pause last for long...
...cannot recall what I actually felt about the president's murder. The only indication I have now of how I felt then is my reaction when news bulletins come over television. To this day I freeze with panic whenever a program is cut off in the middle and a solemn-voiced announcer says, "We interrupt this program to bring you this bulletin from our newsroom in New York...
Should President Nixon resign? Should he be impeached? Or what should he do to prevent either? Last week those once unthinkable questions were argued in a solemn and unique national debate. Excerpts from the most notable opinions...
...Congress to pass legislation calling for a court-appointed prosecutor, Jaworski sounded like a man determined to dig just as deep as Archie Cox had tried to. He told a House judiciary subcommittee that he had taken on the job only after receiving "what I consider the most solemn and substantial assurances of my absolute independence." That independence not only included asking for any tapes or other material he wanted, but also suing the President if they were not forthcoming. True, admitted Jaworski, he had been given these assurances not by the President but by White House Chief of Staff...
...excellent Peter Finch appears as a brassbound industrialist named Krogh who traffics with the Nazis to sustain and increase his fortune. Michael York, who apparently wandered in from Cabaret still wearing his costume, impersonates the brother of Krogh's mistress (Hildegard Neil). There is much solemn and oblique conversation about impending crises, and the feeling prevails that the director, Peter Duffell, was rather too impressed with The Damned. There is, however, a splendid supporting performance by Michael Hordern as a quintessentially seedy journalist. If only the movie as a whole were as echt Greene as Hordern's characterization...