Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the rising political challenge of Ronald Reagan seemed to dent Ford's hard-core optimism. He brushed it aside with the admonition to wait for Election Day. Jerry Ford, at once so simple and yet so perplexing, could almost be believed when he said, "I get a great feeling every day I get up. I can't wait to get over to the office. Some days I am more disappointed than others, but I enjoy the challenge every...
...starred Bob Dylan, sounding like the old adenoidal prince of protest when he delivered his new song, Hurricane. Also on hand: Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Ronee Blakley and Roberta Flack. Sixty miles away in the Clinton, N.J., Correctional Institution, Carter listened to the concert by telephone-and continued to wait for the Governor to act on his appeal for a retrial...
...Halberstam is writing a book that examines power, especially the power of the television Goliath. He is two years and 400 pages into the project and reckons he has another 18 months to go. But admirers of Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest will not have to wait that long to read his new work. Two lengthy excerpts will appear in the January and February issues of the Atlantic...
BONNIE RAITT: HOME PLATE (Warner Bros.; $6.98). Raitt fans patiently wait for Bonnie to make a record equal to the promise of her talent. Home Plate is close, yet still off base. Turning away more and more from the eloquent blues guitar that was the mainspring of her early success, Raitt draws most of her musical energy in her sweet husky voice. Songs like Sugar Mama, Good Enough and I'm Blowin' Away are good. However, she squanders her ability on soap opera ballads like My First Night Alone Without...
Because of the deception involved, Pattullo told me, he should have waited for the next CUHS meeting. "I simply sort of overstepped the bounds a bit, acting beyond my authority." But it is "fairly common" for Pattullo to approve proposals for researchers who cannot wait until the CUHS returns to session in the fall...