Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst part of being at the convention is that it is going to be too crowded in the Garden. So extra rooms had to be rented in neighboring buildings. Mayor Abe Beame says that this "layout sort of makes for coziness...
During Carter's four years as Governor, Kirbo (his family name is of French derivation and originally was perhaps Courbeau) served as a sort of honorary chief of staff. Carter often summoned him, and the two held long talks alone on the back veranda of the mansion. The Governor ran all his top appointments through his confidant. Carter made a nearby Capitol office available to him, and several times each week Kirbo would pull up in his pickup truck, much to the annoyance of Capitol guards, and park in a VIP space...
...undifferentiated mass to be subjected to the blind infliction of the death penalty." The new ruling rejected that approach in favor of leaving leeway for juries and judges to choose within limits when death is or is not a proper punishment. Such laws, said the court, should indicate the sort of aggravating or mitigating circumstances to be taken into account before sentencing-with rigorous appellate review if death is imposed...
...comfort to the studio head, now stricken by a heart attack and laid up in the hospital; or sweet-talking - silently, of course - an extravagantly campy sex bomb (Bernadette Peters) into joining the cause. Under scrutiny this premise may not be quite enough. Silent Movie could have used the sort of unifyingly insane notion that made Brooks' The Producers memorable: make a success by mounting the most miserable failure you can find...
...this is precisely the sort of thing that scares moviemakers with a big bud get at stake. All too quickly they are cranking up a drearily conventionalized fiction in which Charlton Heston clenches and unclenches his jaw muscles as he tries to sort out his relationship with his son, who has inconveniently fallen in love with a Japanese-American girl the authorities erroneously believe...