Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start. With the happy jazz of the '40s playing in the background, Friedkin sets out on a non-stop, all-out, giggly trip down bum's row. Unfortunately, the movie seems to have borrowed its sense of humor from the '40s as well, with no attempt to update it. Every old gag in the book makes its way into the film. Safes fall out of windows and just miss unsuspecting pedestrians, people keep bumping into each other, the odd-tasting pot of beef stew turns out to have a shoe in it. These tired routines would be forgivable if Friedkin...
...talents, instead, were as a showman. From Hasty Pudding to Hitler, Hanfy was a performer, and a skillful one. The Boston Transcript captured his spirit precisely in a story about his trip to Harvard for the 25th reunion of his class. "His loud manner and thirst for American gin captured everyone's affection...
Vance meets again Butros Ghali, acting minister, before flying to for Meir's funeral. He had expected to end his Mideast trip Wednesday after talks in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, but Meir's death changed his plans...
Ohira was Finance Minister in 1975 when Jimmy Carter, then an ex-Governor from Georgia with ambitions, went to Japan for a Trilateral Commission meeting. To Ohira, whom he met on that trip, Carter made a confident promise that he would see him "next time at the White House." When Ohira takes him up on that invitation, his Oval Office visit will be more than a courtesy call...
...Nixon told 800 guests of Oxford University's prestigious debating society that the crowd outside made him feel "very much at home" and that "I have retired from politics, but I have not retired from life." Nixon addressed the society near the end of a week-long trip to France and England, his first overseas trip since 1976, when he visited China. When he appeared before the Oxford group, the ex-President said of Watergate: "I failed to handle a little thing, which became a big thing-and that colors everything else." He summed up to his young audience...