Word: welched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Estes Kefauver's crime probe of 1951 and the Army-McCarthy confrontation of 1954-but those took place before the epoch of the Living Room War and the three-set family. Yet even back in the '50s, when TV aerials decorated only half the American roofs, Joseph Welch, hero of the McCarthy hearings, warned: "Perhaps we should never televise a hearing until we are as completely adjusted to television as to our newspapers, until such time as no judge, no juror and no witness is appalled, dismayed or frightened by the camera, any more than by a reporter...
...acting, Coburn seems to have calculated his performance on a snide rule, Richard Benjamin reasserts his claim to being the movies' most charmless leading man, and Raquel Welch is perfectly cast as a bad actress...
...Raquel Welch says her best assets are her back, teeth, hands and feet [May 14]. Hell, I was wrong four times...
...seems to me that Raquel Welch is in the wrong business. With shoulders like that, she'd be better off as a lineman for the L.A. Rams...
...from the 16th century onward-as panel painting in the West. The spring exhibition at Manhattan's Asia House is "A Flower from Every Meadow," a selection of 86 Indian paintings ranging in date from about 1520 to 1900. Chosen and elegantly catalogued by Art Historian Stuart Carey Welch, the 86 miniatures from American collections constitute one of the year's more delectable shows. The word Mogul has come, for us, to signify gross, unvarnished power: the beefy hand on the limousine telephone. But the Mughal emperors, the Muslim despots who left their dynastic name to the English...