Word: walting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would not have to think hard to find some motivation for throwing a wrench into this year's Dartmouth Winter Carnival. This year's theme is the "Winterful World of Disney," honoring the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney productions. Now that Walt himself is dead, his genius has evaporated from the conglomerate, Walt's old yes-men are trying to figure out ways of remaking Mary Poppins and failing. In any case, the Carnival does not have enough snow to ski at Dartmouth. Howard Chivers, manager of the Skiway, said "this certainly is the worst winter for ski conditions...
DISCUSSING the period of the thirties in American writing, Murray Kempton once remarked that no other age produced so many counterfeit Walt Whitmans. He meant that everyone who wanted his thoughts about society to be believed felt compelled to echo the great grey bard: "I am the man, I suffered, I was there...
Besides an incredible high school program which has produced such old stars as Wilt Chamberlain and Walt Hazzard, and recent pros Mike Banton, Geoff Petrie, and Ollie Johnson--all ten-point plus men--Philadelphia's city colleges have developed some incredibly competitive teams...
These days he is deep in the writing of his memoirs, due to be published this fall. Strewn about his living-room office are piles of books bearing on Viet Nam: Frances FitzGerald's Fire in the Lake, David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, Walt Rostow's The Diffusion of Power, Daniel Ellsberg's Papers on the War. They provide context, checkpoints and sometimes hostile fire for Westmoreland as he works through his own recollections. Does he think that he can add to the work of the earlier analysts? "No one else...
...consider Nichols's previous films, this one winds up a major disappointment. By the time Scott's talking dolphins get mixed up in international intrigue and he sends one dolphin to chase down the other, you'll think you're watching a remake of some animal story from Walt Disney's TV show. What's worse, after the world premiere press screening last week, Producer Joseph E. Levine revealed to Boston film critics that plans are already underway to make Day of the Dolphin into a TV series...