Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however. Both Democrats and Republicans surged into the well of the House, trying to get the attention of the presiding officer, Don Fuqua of Florida. A key handful of them had not yet voted, and others were ready to change their votes. Roars greeted a sudden change in the wall tally; it was now 204 to 202 against Carter's request. But then four more members voted and the count shifted dramatically...
...Wall--861 Main St.--The Lenny Bruce Performance Film, Lenny Bruce on T.V., 6, 8, 10, Sunday at 4, Friday and Saturday at midnight...
...foul on the third strike for an automatic out. That did it. Martin's hair-trigger nerves were already frayed and his health deteriorated by pressure and the search for solace in liquor. He paused only long enough to smash a radio and a beer bottle against his office wall, then suspended Jackson indefinitely...
...Lily resists the eligible lawyer who importunes her, and commits suicide rather than compromise her reputation. Several decades and revolutions later, the more liberated Amy runs off with one Herman Fidler, a rebellious stockbroker who aspires to become a painter. Eventually she marries Jamey Coates, a principled if naive Wall Street lawyer, and saves him through various intrigues from the clutches of an unscrupulous partner who threatens to ruin them both...
...Country Cousin is not among his better novels; in The Embezzler Auchincloss provides a vivid account of how fortunes are made and lost on Wall Street, and his one masterpiece, The Rector of Justin, illuminates a gallery of worldly, dominating men whose characters might have been formed on the playing fields of Groton. But in The Country Cousin, the obligatory references to that world-St.Paul's and Yale; a Whistler in the drawing room; decrepit aunts given to decrying socialism, Jews and Roosevelt-simply fail to summon a social realm that James and Wharton made live...