Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York lawyer argues that even Nelson Rockefeller could wind up in the White House. This theory has a bizarre plausibility. Assume that Wallace carries only four Deep South states with a combined total of less than 43 electoral votes. As one result, both Nixon and Humphrey fail to gain the needed 270 majority in the Electoral College. As another, New York's 43 electors-chosen under Nixon's G.O.P. banner but not constitutionally bound to vote for him-revive old loyalties, cast their ballots for Rockefeller. Heeding the Constitution, the Electoral College sends the names of Nixon, Humphrey...
...Joey Bishop was going to be on, too. But when we went into rehearsal, I was handed the fattest script I have ever seen in my entire life. It was about four inches thick, and I said, 'I didn't come here to do Gone With The Wind.' They said, 'Don't worry, do what you like. You can ad lib and come back to the script whenever you like'-and I did." So did Bishop...
...with a hoot and a "Down with Jerry Herman!" sign, Burt Bacharach and Hal David nevertheless make a wicked entrance in the proceedings now on display at the Colonial. Each micro-second of music has the Bacharach-David signature: a souped-up piano, an unseen chorus blowing like the wind over solos and ensemble numbers alike, tunes that demand alternately a whisper and a belt, and lyrics that stick so close to life in its physical and emotional details as to leave no room either for clever allusions or technical bravado. The long and the short of it is that...
...Vietnam and the senator's voting record have become only peripheral issues, and that is why McGovern is solidly in front of Gubbrud, walking into a conservative Republican wind...
Senator McGovern is wind-blown all right. Across the autumn-gold corn stalks of a roadside field in this rural county, a billboard proclaims: "McGOVERN--A COURAGEOUS PRAIRIE STATESMAN." And there is McGovern, hair tousled, walking into the wind...