Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fleischer Films--Max Fleischer was the man who brought Popeye and Betty Boop to life. Off the Wall presents a retrospective of his works this weekend that is a must for animation freaks. We'll be there... "I fights to the finish 'cause I eats me spinach...
...only sense the pain and isolation of the men in defiant yet oddly downcast expressions, in hushed stories told in hotel rooms, in wistful asides about other men's wives who remained faithful. Yet through the weekend, anger and a tinge of self-pity take nothing away from their evident pride and courage...
Sunday night: 300 "heroes" and their wives, old and new, are winding down the weekend. They have stood and cheered as Ronald Reagan declared that Americans should "never again" go to war "unless we intend to win." Magicians and stand-up comics have sought to amuse. A press release has been circulated announcing that California Governor Jerry Brown will get the "Benedict Arnold Citizenship Award" for appointing ex-antiwar Activist Tom Hayden to the state's new solar energy panel. And now Tony Bennett is closing the show with a sad, silky version of Autumn Leaves...
Following that standard, Kraft drives his battered 1969 Ford to the White House by 8 a.m. every day, stays past 8 p.m. and puts in some weekend hours as well. There are job lists to consider, a sea of memorandums from the Cabinet departments, political invitations for presidential visits. Gone is the time for backpacking trips or even the occasional poker game that he once enjoyed. He counts himself lucky to spend a little time on Sundays at the pool in the backyard of the Georgetown house he shares with Jordan and Presidential Pollster Pat Caddell (Kraft's marriage...
United Airlines hauled more passengers (148,479) on June 15 than on any other day in its history. Said one slightly dazed United executive: "It's incredible -we are carrying more people than at the end of a holiday weekend...