Word: stackful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mongoose awaiting the right moment to strike a superior adversary and the assurance of a man who knows everything worth knowing about the topic at hand. This Sunday, when he clears his throat, adjusts the pillow seat that makes him look taller on camera, and thumbs the stack of index cards before him, Spivak and Meet the Press will be celebrating 25 years on television. At 72, he is the longest-lived personality on network TV, a monument to durability in a field where ten or twelve years can be counted a full career...
...recent scandal could foster the South Dakotan's chances, however. On Tuesday, the president of the University of Texas Young Republicans resigned, and came out for McGovern. The washburn, national YR director, had allegedly offered him a bribe to ramrod and stack future YR elections in the state with the radical conservative element...
...years before joining the aircraft firm: "You never sell to the Chinese-they buy from you." Aircraft salesmen usually pass around cuff links, miniature aircraft-panel clocks and other freebies to prospective customers, but Miller observed the Chinese emphasis on strict propriety by taking along as gifts only a stack of cardboard time-distance indicators that show flight times between various cities. These gradually disappeared from the table during the team's twice-daily three-hour sessions with officials of the machinery corporation and of China's civil aviation authority...
Ritchie and Larner stack the cards by making all McKay supporters well-fed suburban liberals or eager youths with a renewed faith in the electoral process. Jarmon's people are loud, right-wing, wrong-thinking rednecks who are not even photogenic. Neither the authentic political atmosphere nor canny performances by Redford, Boyle and Porter go far to cut through the basic glibness of the film. Ritchie incorporates numerous television political commercials and makes a point of their smooth dishonesty and wily distortion. None, however have less substance than The Candidate...
...wanders about comically decrying life as illusion or delusion or perhaps just "mislaid." Deadpan Archie and Smith stops the show as a cabman--hired by Vandergelder to help separate Ambrose and Ermengarde, but sublimely unruffled by their antics. Best of all is Laurence Senelick as the experienced drunkard Malachi Stack. His monologue on the advisability of nurturing one vice and letting "your virtues spring up modestly around it" is itself worth the price of admission...