Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roosevelt worked out ingenious ways of visiting Lucy at Tranquillity, the Rutherfurd family estate in northern New Jersey, while Secret Service men kept watch and newsmen wondered where he had gone...
...this time that "no budget for any department is sacrosanct, and that includes the Defense budget." When asked what advice he could give the American worker confronted by soaring rises in the price of everything, Ford offered only bleak counsel: emulate the belt-tightening example of the Administration and "watch every penny...
...tale of Adventurer Victor Stadter's copter flight into a Mexican prison to spring wealthy American Joel Kaplan. Nor, for that matter, did some of the scripted scenes; though the actual 1971 jailbreak went uneventfully, not so the movie version. Appearing unexpectedly on the set, Kaplan and Stadter watched in amazement as two Jeeploads of movieland police blasted away at Actors Bronson and Duvall re-enacting the escape. Said Stadter afterward: "I was more scared watch ing all this than when we did the caper...
...plunge into a world where everyone is "into" some sort of object: wicker baskets, pre-Columbian bowls, Oriental sculptures, early American leg irons. His new acquaintances are sharks, nuzzling through dealers' galleries, circling fiercely at auctions. With cold passion, they study the artifacts of vanquished people; blankly, they watch for signs of ignorance or weakness in competitors, especially newcomers like Muhlbach. Having acquired a little knowledge, he quickly obliges them. He successfully bids on what he takes to be an Olmec jade mask, realizing only as the hammer falls that none of the authentic dealers had been nibbling...
Dick Cavett is the darling of people who say proudly that they never watch television. His wit is quick and responsive-it avoids the soggy, set-piece gag and flashes in reaction to what the guest has just said. When Norman Mailer once proclaimed that he was smarter than the other guests, Cavett briskly offered him another chair to contain his giant intellect. While the Jack Paars or the Merv Griffins or the Johnny Carsons put on guests like Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buddy Hackett, Cavett is likely to capture such provocative types as Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles...