Word: ta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swamps and there's DeRoss out there somewhere swimming away and they've got me and Jack; and Pierre's probably all packed away and Jacobs is home free and Billy Morrison is leading the football team out of danger in the big broad pink Mercury he use ta have and then Terry's got such a head of pressure built up, God! he braces his foot against the cage and he just lets it all go and it catches the sheriff right in the ear and Chick had a lotta beer in him so he hardly stops before they...
...Force Brigadier General Tkach (pronounced Ta-kosh), the procedure was routine. Whether the journey is to Amarillo or to Asia, Tkach and his staff investigate medical facilities in advance to make sure that they can offer proper care to the President. The doctors also plot the most direct route from any point on the itinerary to the nearest hospital. Tkach is satisfied that Nixon's health will be well protected in China. "We feel safer on this one than on most," he says. "We feel security will be very good, and I think their medical practice and capability...
...Ta-Daaaaa! The thought seemed to cheer her up. Her husband ordered a steak sent up to her room, and after she put it away she bounced up and taught a visitor how to do the shuffle and the shim-sham. Soon she was stomping to the music of an imaginary combo and shaking it up like the great little putter-outer she has always been. "Ta-daaaaa!" she yelled as she reached the Durante closer, her arms opened wide and her green eyes glittering happily through her long soft strawberry locks. Quit show business? Come off it! Just watch...
...receiving end may look forward to a Spiro Agnew wastebasket, with decorations commemorating his crowning victories on the golf course and tennis court. A windup Richard Nixon box looks something like a toaster and contains a loose-jointed figure in the presidential image that dances to a tinkly Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay. Strangely silent, however, is the forthcoming Martha Mitchell doll, authorized by the Attorney General's wife herself...
...supports his matchstick characters with the crudest possible symbolism. Rosy breathes and heaves beside a patch of openmouthed lilies as Doryan appears on the hill. Their couplings-and every potentially significant moment in the film -are drowned by the roar of the surf, the creak of windblown trees, the ta-pocketa-pocketa of a British power generator, and an overpowering score. Perhaps the rudest device of all is the misuse of John Mills as the village idiot who sees all and knows all, but can tell nothing. Like the film itself, it is scarcely worthy of Lean's demonstrated...