Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original cast means Jim Garner, 39, a Tennessee-born ex-radio actor and program director, who scored another smash success last season in the title role of Atlanta's production of MacBird. His is a deft caricature of Lester Maddox as a bland, eupeptic nincompoop given to chats with God. Dressed in blue knee pants and jacket, a Buster Brown collar and a big red tie, Garner prances blithely across the stage, wagging his head, whistling his sibilants, letting his tongue loll inanely between parted lips. The portrayal produces whoops of delighted recognition from audiences, who know the original...
...Garner and Reynolds desperately try to carry on in the tradition of the Rock Hudson-Doris Day sex farces of the '50s. But they are swiftly undone by shameless mugging, slow-running gags and hurried slapstick. This is the kind of comedy that calls for gales of canned laughter on television-which is really the only kind that canned comedy deserves...
...Sweet It Is!, nearly all the personnel came out of the tube. Director Jerry Paris is from the Dick Van Dyke show. The writers are out of the Danny Thomas factory. The star, James Garner, was once Maverick. Fair enough; talent has to break in somewhere. But this febrile farce betrays its videosyncrasies wherever it meanders. Garner, a magazine photographer named Grif, finds that he cannot communicate with his hippie dippy son. When the boy decides to tour Europe, his meddle-class mother (Debbie Reynolds) decides to fill the generation gap by taking a house in France for the summer...
...retroactive to January 1 for corporations and to April 1 for individuals, should garner $10 billion in a calendar year to offset a deficit that could run as high as $25 billion - even after the cutback in expenditures - and bolster sagging international confidence in the dollar. During the second quar ter of 1968, the U.S. economy is expected to equal the first quarter's $20 billion leap forward in gross national product. With no rein on the economy, Johnson reasoned, inflation could lop 40 off every dollar's purchasing power during the year and help price U.S. exports...
...victory next Tuesday is Branigin's tightly controlled state party machine, which is allied with many of Indiana's labor leaders. If it runs at top speed, the popular Governor may outdistance both his rivals. But even if it performs only moderately well, it can garner enough votes to prevent either Kennedy or McCarthy from claiming anything significant in the results...