Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyone notice the unusual hand formation of President Carter's in the picture of his walk to the White House [Jan. 31]? You can be sure that all readers who are either deaf or who work with the deaf will recognize the very special and endearing sign that translates to "I love...
More broadly, the nation's regional press has applauded Carter's tone-setting use of symbols in his first Oval Office days. The low-key Inaugural speech, the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, the televised chat in a sweater, the surprise visit to frozen Pittsburgh, putting Amy in a public school, cutting down on limousines, banning Hail to the Chief -all were seen as moving Carter closer to the people. "That spirit of mutuality, that feeling that all Americans are part of the Government and not apart from it, is a feeling that we have missed for years...
...Buffalo struggled to cope with its emergency, there were unavoidable tragedies. Five people were found frozen to death in their stalled cars; one was within a five-minute walk of numerous warm houses. For 32 hours, no ambulance could move. "We couldn't get out to people," recalled Dr. Joseph Zizzi, "and they couldn't get in to us. I've never seen anything like it." Doctors could only telephone stricken residents or send word through CB operators about what to do for stricken people suffering chest pains and fainting spells. A fire in one house spread...
...need for privacy while filming. Special locks were installed on the doors to the sound stages, with keys supplied to only cast and crew. Behind locked doors, a Bergman set is a calm and quiet place of intense concentration. "On the first day of shooting," reports Carradine, "Ingmar walked me through the scene where I discover my brother's dead body. To dramatize my dazed condition, I was ordered to walk into a closet and sit down. That's when I realized I was in a Bergman picture...
...doesn't seem to matter. Trivial or not, the book is gripping. It is the ultimate disaster flick, on paper instead of in cinemascope, and the entertainment becomes all the more horribly satisfying with the realization that the actors in this script didn't get up and walk away when the camera clicked off. If one is prone to tears or cheers, he will succumb more readily with a reading of Allen's book than a hundred screenings of Earthquake...