Word: telethons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost a wartime status, but we are interdicting only about 10% of the illegal drugs coming in." Most dealers feel even that is an overestimation. Successful smugglers hardly bother to hide their activities. Two Florida brothers, Tracy and Darrell Boyd, once donated $10,000 to the muscular-dystrophy telethon signing themselves "the blockade runners...
...With a pen dipped in corrosive sublimate, Sorel uncovers the Presidents from Harry Truman as a Keystone Kop to Jimmy Carter in the throes of a scatological tantrum. No one is safe from Sorel: he skewers Arabs and Zionists, harpoons Cardinal Cooke and Billy Graham, lampoons the Jerry Lewis telethon: "Maybe some day science will find a cure for Multiple No-Talent." Sorel's style is best when it reveals the foibles of its subject graphically: Gloria Steinem as a knight in tarnished amour, Scoop Jackson as a sheriff with a beltful of missiles, Woody Allen as Satan...
...this world and of it, and so it evolves from the mouse that roared into the whimpering elephant it set out to destroy. It is in this way that a comedy--taking itself too seriously--becomes, at best, satire, and at worst, tragedy. Enter Jerry Lewis, joking on his Telethon. Humor in the service of any institution becomes pathetic...
...Soviet Jewish Defense League has been responsible for some earlier outrages against Soviet officials in the U.S., another group called the Jewish Armed Resistance claimed credit, if that is the word, for the Amtorg bomb. While the New York incidents were certainly silly as well as criminal, the Soviet telethon was a new measure of the irritated state of U.S.-Soviet relations...
...money to about 1 million voters; he plans an even larger mailing after the Florida primary. In addition, he organizes countless cocktail parties, receptions and dinners-at up to $250 a person-sometimes with Carter in attendance. On Valentine's Day, Carter presided over a five-hour telethon in Georgia that featured Rock Stars Gregg Allman and James Brown, Actress Peggy Cass and Ballplayer Henry Aaron, and pulled in pledges...