Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Comedians ask: "How can a man who works in an Oval Office paint himself into so many corners?" They tell audiences about "the Jerry Ford doll"-wind it up and it lurches into something. The jokes are even spreading abroad. On an Israeli TV show, "President Chevrolet" greets some Israelis at the White House by saying how pleased he is to "welcome this distinguished group of Egyptians to the Kremlin." Other jokes making the rounds...
...movie is sentimental, without apology, but hard-edged too. The sight of Peachy's booty sliding down a mountainside recalls the gold dust in Sierra Madre blowing away in the Mexican wind. Huston includes many of the visual asides and unguarded gestures - like a village chieftain preparing for a beheading by sharpening his sword on a stone wall - that have always given his work such rich texture. Caine and Connery make a splendid couple of cronies, full of bluff and swagger...
...WIND AND THE LION. A grand, wistful adventure, directed and written by John Milius, concerning the last of the Barbary pirates (Sean Connery). The movie is made affectionately in the mold of such larger-than-life romances as Drums and Four Feathers...
...ready for the angle of every curve. With $60,000 invested in a single-seat Blazer and the two-seat truck, Evans and his partner, Parnelli Jones, onetime Indianapolis 500 winner, cannot afford mistakes. "A race is like a razor in a barbershop," shouts Evans above the wind. "It'll cut your throat in a minute, but you always keep honing...
...Corporate profits, which already are staging a vigorous comeback from their recession lows, will go on climbing and could wind up next year 20% to 30% higher than...