Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camera eventually put an end to such performances, and the image of the TV reporter changed to that of a sober professional who, though his background in Asian affairs might have gone no further than a college survey course, was dedicated to telling the inside story. The tour of network staffers in Viet Nam, unfortunately, was usually limited to six months and consequently the coverage was often little more than each new man's personal impressions of how it is over there...
Throughout, the dramatic situation underlines and motivates the visual tour de force: he enters the sanitarium, escapes to Paris where bogie-man William S. Burroughs supplies him with drugs, re-enters the sanitarium upon discovery, and finishes the cure. The film ends brilliantly with two scenes of Harwick--cured--leaving the sanitarium, expressing both the hallucinations of leaving the must have been the final visions of an almost-cured Rooks (he exits by helicopter and waves goodbye to himself, standing on the highest gable of the building), and the simpler reality of his actual exit by chauffeur-driven automobile...
...When I went to Washington in January 1965, Mr. Johnson gave me a ten-gallon Texas hat. This time I'd like to get something to go in the hat." Thus spoke Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato as he departed from Tokyo for a seven-day American tour. Before the week was out, Sato had won concessions from Lyndon Johnson on matters peculiarly sensitive to Japanese pride-but whether they totaled ten gallons was debatable...
When the President insisted on coming anyway, Connally argued for a relatively low-keyed tour aimed mainly at Texas businessmen. Kennedy's advance men demanded more exposure to the crowd. After a "heated argument," the Kennedy people prevailed over Connally, and a Dallas motorcade was scheduled. The route was released to the press three days ahead of time, though Connally had objected that this would give hecklers a chance to organize. When Kennedy arrived, Connally was pleasantly surprised by the size of the crowds and their friendliness. In his last conversation with the President during the Dallas motorcade...
...perform Falstaff merely requires a stageful of virtuosi, a Wagner-sized orchestra and a brilliant conductor. The Opera Company of Boston, after a triumphant tour of the nation, has brought all these requirements back to Boston. Sarah Caldwell, the Company's director, has engineered the whole thing. The massive Madame Caldwell, dressed like an acolyte at a black mass, conducts with bare fists. What is more, she conducted the opera three nights in a row, which is roughly equivalent to taking on Muhamed Ali in a match and two returns. She had absolute control over her orchestra and managed...