Word: splash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dozen Senators or twoscore Representatives could say the same thing without making too much of a splash. But when New York's Senator Robert F. Kennedy accuses President Johnson of having muffed a chance to end the war in Viet Nam, his single, rather reedy voice has the volume of the Anvil Chorus in this year of presidential maneuvering...
...country and put up at an inn suspiciously festooned in garlic-a well-known specific against bloodsuckers. Things augur well when the luscious Sharon Tate is savagely fondled and fangled in her bath by caped Count Krolock, who makes off with her into the snowy night, leaving a sinister splash of blood on the soapsuds. But by the time that professor and assistant totter to the rescue with their bag of crucifixes (to ward off the vampires), the plot creaks even more than the doors and floor boards of Krolock Castle...
That spoof recently made a big splash on A Series of Birds, the boldest, brashest and most controversial new show on British TV. The star, director, writer and most of the cast are John Bird, 30, whose devastating mimicry of Wilson and other world leaders made him the terror of the telly a few years ago on That Was the Week That Was. But unlike TW3, which confined its satire to a string of short, disconnected vignettes, Bird's new show preys on a wide range of subjects in one continuous 25-minute sketch...
...threat-with good reason. Honda, for example, expects to sell 12,000 of its cars within twelve months. In France during the first nine months of this year, 2,307 Japanese cars were sold, compared with 182 for all of 1966. As in Britain, Honda is making a big splash, and has already taken 7,000 orders for its mini-series for delivery next year. And in Belgium, Toyota's Corolla, Crown and Corona models trebled last year's sales of 1,000 in the first nine months...
...London's largest tabloid, to take off after him. "The trouble about Mr. Brown is not that he drinks too much," said the Mirror, "but that he shouldn't drink at all. Genial George was born with so much natural ebullience that all it needs is a splash of soda to make his behavior intolerable. A double soda will, at the drop of a hat, make George the life and soul of the party, but it is not making him the life and soul of the Labor Party." The paper praised Brown for unquestioned intelligence, but said that...