Word: turncoat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both writers like Raymond Chandler and film makers like Sam Peckinpah. One of the most commanding, demanding of Excitable Boy's nine songs is Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, a harsh, haunted, hard-as-bedrock chronicle of a Norwegian mercenary soldier whose head is blown off by a turncoat CIA operative named Van Owen. Roland's ghost hunts...
John Connally, 60, the Democratic convert who is trying to overcome Republican stalwarts' distrust of him as a turncoat, lately by heading a drive to raise $1.5 million to buy the G.O.P. national headquarters building in Washington. Taking a page from Reagan's book, he has also formed the John Connally Citizens Forum to raise funds for Republican candidates in 1978, and for the 80 or so politicking trips he plans on their behalf. Though charming and forceful, he could be hurt by his past alliances with Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and by his indictment-though...
David Clem is a walking anomaly. He's also an incumbent city councilor. The independents say he's a liberal, Brattle St. type; the Cambridge Convention people call him a turncoat, a man who betrayed those who supported them in 1975 in favor of the anti-rent control interests...
After all those years of flinging rich Gallic dishes about on TV, America's premier French chef, Julia Child, has become a culinary turncoat. In her first new public broadcasting series since 1972, she will concentrate on, of all things, American cuisine. Says Julia, 64: "It's time we branched out and did something different." In the 13-installment program, which she will begin shooting in September, Julia will whip up entire meals instead of single dishes, aiming also to "get out of the kindergarten. We don't want to show how to chop onions. This will...
...directly associated with every decision." Then, rising from a sickbed, she summoned her Cabinet and other party leaders and extracted from each of them a signed statement of loyalty to herself and a condemnation of Ram. Later, as her anger grew, she denounced Ram as an opportunist and a turncoat, and charged that he was to blame for a recent rise in food prices. "Now that I am not in government," replied Ram sarcastically, "I suppose prices will start going down...