Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...door of his fashionably appointed den proves to be revolving. Through it stream people whose untidy problems and messy personalities make Simon seem almost a genteel charmer, though his witty ripostes are fashioned from barbed wire. His upstairs lodger, a sociology student, enters to cadge money and denounce Wagner as a fascist. Simon's elder brother, an academic mole, mewls and pules about the disadvantages of not having an Oxford degree...
...GENERAL, the end of All The President's Men is disappointing. In close-ups of a wire-machine we are shown the great news stories that followed the early period of the investigation documented here--the convictions of Hunt and Liddy, the sentencing of Segretti, and the resignation of Nixon. Somehow the effect is something like the announcements of the sentences that used to be read out at the end of Dragnet. It is good to be reminded where Woodward and Bernstein led the nation, good to be reminded that these men werehumbled. But in a sense that...
This is what Hills means by scruples: Suppose your brand-new electric portable typewriter is stolen from the back seat of your locked car, and the thief was deft enough to get the door open without breaking the window. (He did it with a bent wire coat-hanger--easy as pie). You have plenty of insurance, but the company won't pay without physical proof that you didn't leave the car unlocked. A broken window would do, for example. Now, you've been paying premiums for twenty years, and they owe you the money fair and square...
Starting next Saturday, the Boston Minutemen bring NASL soccer to Harvard stadium where they will play eight games. (Student tickets cost $2.50.) They open their quest for a third straight Northern Division title against the Toronto Metros, who battled Boston to the wire in last season's stretch drive. Boston plans to use more American players this year, including third-year goalie, Harvard alumnus Shep Messing...
Scheer, his voice made hollow by several thousand miles of telephone wire from San Francisco warns, "He's a sharp, cunning, ruthless politician. And if you buy that mystic stuff, you're crazy...