Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sally Quinn is certainly not a loser [July 7]. The losers are the fine, competent, hard-working women in American journalism who slave to have themselves taken seriously and then watch supposedly responsible news mags like TIME turn a twiddle-headed meatball into a princess of the "mediacracy...
...differences between the two groups were sharply revealed when staffers gathered in a CIA auditorium last spring to watch a videotape of an interview in Canada with former Agent Philip Agee, who quit the agency to write an exposé of the CIA (see BOOKS). After the screening, a lively debate broke out between those who felt that some of Agee's charges were well founded and those who denounced him as a contemptible traitor...
...Tommy's Lunch and looked across the table at Carie Graves. Carle didn't have to worry about being a spare; she'd been stroke that morning, the most prestigious position in the boat. "I'm not doing all this just so I can go over there and watch other people row. So you get a free trip to England, so what? I can go to England on a tour, if I want...
...love at first sight, since she's "the first dame who hasn't fallen for his line since he was four"), but she ends up melting in his arms with Shirley Temple sweetness. Donald O'Connor is so frenetic as Kelly's comic sidekick that he's exhausting to watch, particularly in "Make 'Em Laugh," a tribute to vaudeville slapstick during which he walks into walls, falls over couches, and generally mutilates himself in a (vain) attempt to make someone, anyone laugh. But Jean Hagen is the most annoying of all, doing a pale imitation of Judy Holliday...
...predicament of being female. As a little girl, Clara is orphaned, and raised in the forbidding London home of a pious uncle. When she is so light-minded as to laugh aloud at the antics of a bird in the garden, he whips her neck with a watch chain. The child accurately notes that it was indeed the custom to birch girls on the bared portions of their anatomies, but adds that nevertheless it was "inexpressibly painful...