Word: whacks
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...think people sit down at 80 bucks a whack to have a look at somebody who is a movie star, who is a bigger-than-life image." Do they get their money's worth? "They want to see me out of curiosity. When I deliver a performance, I think that's the coup...
...Richard Nixon. He would not, Reagan promised Ford, directly attack the incumbent President or do anything else that might split the party. But the next day, on a coast-to-coast TV hookup from the National Press Club in Washington, he got off at least one not so subtle whack at Ford...
...last national election in 1972, which would give them an impressive nationwide total of 30%; the same polls forecast that the Christian Democrats would lose 3%, dropping to an overall 35%. But there are two jokers-or "jollies," as Italians call them-that may throw the polls out of whack: 1) some 2.5 million Italians from the ages of 18 to 21, enfranchised only in March, will be voting for the first time, and a large number are expected to mark their ballots beside the hammer-and-sickle symbol of the Partito Comunista Italiano; 2) the polls were taken prior...
Mabel and Nick's world is a simple dichotomy: there are the two of them on one side and everyone else on the other. It is Nick's ambivalence, his teetering between loyalty to convention and loyalty to his "whack-o" wife that is the stuff of Cassavetes's tragedy...
Down yonder in Washington, President Ford has assembled over 700 of the nation's top economists to argue with presidential advisers over the best way to tame run-a-way inflation and bring the economy back into whack. And here in Cambridge, President Bok and the alumni fund-raisers for the Harvard College Fund will spend much of their 13th annual assembly brooding over what they will do in the coming year if Ford's crew continues to fail...