Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distant rumble offstage and the deafening shout of the auctioneers announce the arrival of "a front and back bar, English, a real beauty, who'll start me at $25,000?" The whole thing, garnished with plants and beer mugs, is rolled onto the stage on a dolly, where a crew rotates it under the lights. The motion makes it a little hard actually to see the object being offered, but it "puts more color into the wood," says Acey Decy Equipment Co.'s Peter Ritter. The sound system is pitched to discourage any distracting conversation in the audience...
...American people are coming to the same conclusion about Jimmy Carter. Richard Scammon, an expert in the analysis of public opinion, finds the Harris and Gallup polls that show Carter now running behind Republicans Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford "the worst thing that has happened in his presidency." Ratings of "approval" often rise and fall. But when specific choices are being made this early in the political season, Scammon believes that the problem of an incumbent reaches beyond politics to the popular perception...
Quiet Sundays are one thing, but in Ocean Grove (pop. 7,000), N.J., which was founded as a seaside Methodist campsite 110 years ago, they are carried to extremes. Heavy chains block the roads into town, and no cars are allowed to move on the streets. Outdoor work, including gardening around the Victorian cottages, is banned. No one is permitted to go swimming, fishing, skating or buy even an ice cream cone. Until a newsdealer won a court suit several years ago, papers could not be delivered on Sunday...
...Anwar Sadat on the lawn of the Mamura guesthouse in Alexandria, the table was set up on the spot where they initialed the second Sinai disengagement agreement in late summer 1975. Said an obviously moved Kissinger: "We sat in the same positions. I was almost overcome with memories. One thing I did in public life which made a difference was to work with Sadat...
Were she not an unquestioned star, one would suspect The Main Event of being a vanity production-the sort of thing aging screen queens sometimes get their wealthy admirers to buy for them so that the camera may once again be permitted to adore them. In particular, this star seems to labor under the delusion that it is not so much her face as her bottom that is her fortune-so many low angles of it upturned and bouncing about are featured. It's not a bad bottom, but you can't really make a movie...