Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which is odd, since Langella looks as if he's been preening before one for the last 20 years. For Langella, Dracula is a haunted lover, a slave to his lust. He brings off the concept, while Richter and Badham whip up blood squalls around him. But the performance is a fraction of what it could have been. Maybe Langella is too good an actor to be frittered away on the screen. I don't mean that as an insult to films, but where else can an actor with no technical resources--a Jack Nicholson (good...
...good news, then, is that a powerful marketer has come up with a cheap and tasty product that can do much to whip malnutrition. The frustrating fact, however, is that Austin & Co. feel constrained to go slow by politics and the realities of the marketplace...
...muffled because recordings must still be transferred to conventional analog records. Playback equipment is a way down the road-maybe five years, maybe a little longer. Before the next decade is too far along, however, the audiophile down the block with all the latest equipment may be able to whip out a record smaller than a conventional 45 and put it on a machine that will scan its data with a laser. The sound will produce, in the owner, a guarded but rather smug smile, and in the envious listener the impression that his old conventional rig at home produces...
...Connecticut to force every driver to choose one day a week on which he would leave his car or cars in the garage (windshield stickers would identify the forbidden day). They also invited Carter to work with them in devising a new gas-rationing plan. Said House Democratic Whip John Brademas of Indiana: "In effect, we told the President, 'The train is leaving the station; would you like to get aboard...
...outcome is very much in doubt. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston of California, a leading SALT supporter, counts no more than 58 votes for the treaty and 30 against, leaving twelve Senators wholly undecided. The opponents have similar head counts. Thus, for the moment, the treaty is in what Alaska's Ted Stevens, a Republican opponent, calls a "never-never land," a standoff in which treaty backers have enough votes to block crippling amendments or a filibuster but lack the 67 votes that constitute the two-thirds majority needed to approve the pact...