Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occurred to ABC that perhaps people watch 60 Minutes because it is not slick, filled with frequent humor, and does not slide quickly over items...
...black shoes sparkled, his gold watch glittered. In the lapel of his crisp blue jacket a gold pin with five pearls gleamed. Under the hot glare of TV lights he kept dry and cool, sipping club soda. From behind the immaculate facade, however, came a sordid account of influence peddling. In two days of public hearings before the House ethics committee, Tongsun Park, the South Korean rice broker and Georgetown party host, provided the details of how he gave 31 past and present Congressmen, two congressional candidates and President Nixon's re-election committee upward...
Grigori Goldshtein, 46, and Pyotr Vins, 21, members of Helsinki watch groups in Georgia and the Ukraine, have been sentenced to one year in concentration camps for "malicious evasion of socially useful labor." Leaders of a similar group in Kiev, Engineer Myroslav Marinovych, 28. and Historian Mykola Matusevych, 30, have been sentenced to seven years in jail plus five years of internal exile for "anti-Soviet agitation...
...music is built on a dissonant counterpoint between the vocal lines and orchestration. Although it has little charm or lyricism, the score does have strength. And there are some masterly touches, as in a ballroom scene in Act 1 in which Bothwell (sung by Barry Busse) and his soldiers watch awkwardly as Mary (Ashley Putnam) and her courtiers dance stately pavanes. Infuriated by the perfumed elegance, Bothwell strides forward and belts forth a rough Scottish reel. The roistering tune and sinister tremolo accompaniment overwhelm the lutelike Renaissance melody of the dance-and the musical battle foreshadows real ones to come...
...America gets out of the industrial revolution, baseball is taking on a resurgence, people are more into a laidback type of sit down and relax and enjoy a beer, discuss politics, watch a ball game, you can do everything at the same time!" he said smoothly...