Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supermarkets and suburban shopping centers, and over the years the market men have moved from the old neighborhoods in the North End out to Somerville, and Cambridge. But Haymarket is still an intensely human place, where there is a fierce brotherhood among competitors, and a vendor will still toss a few old cherries at the back of an obnoxious customer...
...documents taken from Wiretapper Hunt's safe in the Executive Office Building be "deep-sixed." Ehrlichman is said to have asked: "You drive across the river on your way home at night, don't you? Well, when you cross over the bridge on your way home, just toss the briefcase into the river." Later, according to Dean, these papers were instead given to Patrick Gray by Dean and Ehrlichman in the latter's office. Gray has said that he was given the admonition: "These should never see the light of day." Gray has admitted destroying the documents...
Nevertheless, some of the performances are fun to watch. Dyan Cannon plays a brassy, bitchy manager, joyfully screwing Coburn and half the crew. You never know whether to toss Cannon off as the sexy starlet "dumb broad" type, or look for intelligence behind her unabashed flattery. She manages to maintain this tension in her role throughout the film, and Ross uses her well as a counterpoint to more mundane dialogue. Richard Benjamin is the sliding writer, questioning and confused about the cruise and its purposes; Joan Hackett plays his clinging wife; and Mason plays the washed up director with...
...documents and 'deep-six' the briefcase. I asked him what he meant by deep-six. He leaned back in his chair and said: 'You drive across the river on your way home at night, don't you? Well, when you cross over the bridge on your way home, just toss the briefcase into the river.' I told him in a joking manner that I would bring the materials over to him and he could take care of them because he also crossed the river on his way home. He said no thank you." Ehrlichman, asked about this by Mike Wallace...
...Governing Boards also like to toss a piece of parchment to a rich alum who donates a lot to the University. Many of these creatures are in the environs, but some have been tarred with the Nixon-Watergate brush. Consequently, this...