Word: watcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John W. Gardner, 58, founder of the Urban Coalition: The other half of the Hayakawa-Gardner poll might have been both a good choice for the Corporation and a good guess for the Corporation watcher...
...progress from liberalism to violence may be intended as a paradigm of contemporary student politics, but Director Paul Williams is equally interested in the human impulses that shape history. A is certainly no hero, and as a political figure he possesses about as much charisma as the neighborhood poll watcher. His gimpy right leg cripples him physically, and his academic training-plus a lower-middle-class upbringing-tends to paralyze him politically. Unfortunately, The Revolutionary sometimes suffers from the same lingering paralysis. The crucial climactic scene ends with a frame-freeze as A confronts the judge: Will he throw...
News Editor Edwin Goodpaster relayed instructions and guidance on the needs of the editors. And Hugh Sidey, Washington bureau chief since January 1969 and our chief President watcher since 1960, assumed the baton of overall command...
Lousy Dancers. The frustrations of being black are shadowed with bitterness as well as violence. A constant TV watcher, the five-year-old son of a black Chicago professional man recently asked: "Daddy, we're not black, are we?" When asked why, he said: "When you're black, the police will shoot you." The boy does not want too many black children living near him "because they do bad things." He has decided, he says, that he is brown...
...Laugh-In. The choppiness of the action could be excused as it precludes a continuous plot-line, which is also absent in the book. But the minimal transitions that are attempted lack the barest suggestion of originality. It just so happens, for instance, that Grand is an avid TV-watcher, and his propensity to change channels lets Southern smuggle in random bits about a disguised puma that eats its competition at a silk-stocking New York dog show and two gnarled heavyweight contenders who prance to the center of the ring, embrace, and writhe down to the canvas moaning passionately...