Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brother Robert's assassination last year. The surviving Kennedy became the immediate target of conflicting pressures-to save the Democratic ticket by running for Vice President, to save his brother's cause by running for President. He ruled out the second spot. Although there was some talk of a draft for the presidential nomination, and although Eugene McCarthy offered Kennedy his delegates during the convention, there was no assurance that Ted could get the nomination, and no certainty in his own mind that he should try for it. In any event, he decided to give a firm...
...primary campaign. Gradually his humor and sprightliness returned. But in front of the fireplace in his new home in Virginia, into which he moved with his wife Joan and their three children last March, he appeared distant and dreamy when the subject of his future came up. Frequently, the talk centered on the Senate and his role in it. He was generally pleased with his performance so far, he told one friend. But: "I want to establish more of a record." In the wake of Humphrey's defeat, the inevitable White House talk came to haunt him. Repeatedly...
...There is talk of the big powers imposing a settlement. What do you consider are the prospects for such a solution...
...height although Paul Waickowski's performance against San Francisco was very encouraging; a surfeit of careless errors and missed opportunities. Harrison has done a remarkable job in instilling spirit in his team--sophomores Noble, Joe Stanislaw, Mike Collins and George Yates typify the spirit: though sparingly used, they talk it up on the bench and hustle through practices, all interested in improving the program...
Chekhov's narrative is meticulously simple, containing, as he put it, "much talk of literature, little action, and five poods* of love." Director Sidney Lumet, who hammered home The Pawnbroker, pummels away at Chekhov's plot. At the country estate of a retired civil servant named Sorin (Harry Andrews) is assembled a group of people who over the course of two years will quietly destroy one another: Sorin's sister Arkadina (Simone Signoret), an aging actress vacationing in the country with her lover Trigorin (James Mason), a successful author; Arkadina's son Konstantin (David Warner...