Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shadows. Now and then there are tantalizing glimpses of a man different from the one generally portrayed, but they are obscured by a manufactured smokescreen that rises from Nixon's doubts about what he does and says and his suspicions of even those who get close enough to watch...
...Nightmare Factory, while in prison, says: "It takes real guts to stand up in front of a class of pretty heavy types and read your prose or poetry. But you can see what it does to an individual's self-confidence to have the experience, and you can watch them grow." Some of his favorite writers have not yet been published professionally. Gary Taylor, who just finished eighteen months for drug addiction, used his time working on a novel. Dellinger says of Margaret Martinez, a prolific young Chicano who is in for three years for smuggling dope...
There is a story making the rounds in Hollywood about how Bob Evans had a few friends in to watch a film in the screening room of his 16-room Beverly Hills mansion. Bob was reclining on his hospital-style bed as usual, nursing his bad back. The picture was a dreadful sci-fi epic featuring an invading army of ants that marched interminably across the screen. "What do they want anyway?" a guest protested. Another viewer, Producer Ray Stark, replied, "They want the final...
...Jones, the ex-World War II corporal and veteran of the watch on Waikiki and Guadalcanal, is no longer disturbed by the glitter of military brass. With a large talent for observation and characterization he is able to separate individuals from the moral horrors of the war. He is also an unabashed admirer of the kind of machismo and professionalism displayed by U.S. officers in Viet Nam, who went out of their way to ferry him to locations from which regular reporters were barred. Jones was fortunate in having as an old social contact a general who pulled the strings...
Armed with these new tricks, I rose to soda-selling respectability by the third homestand. I began to watch the scoreboard to learn when to quit so as to avoid the task of downing 15 leftover sodas. By the All-Star break, I had earned the reputation as number-one coke-man in Veteran's Stadium...