Word: chases
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...message of the campaign brochure was slick and soothing: "Bentsen. He dreams dreams. But he doesn't chase rainbows." In announcing his candidacy last week for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas was nonetheless pursuing a decided long shot. He made the announcement first in the Senate Caucus Room in Washington, then on the same day flew down for an instant replay for the home folks at Houston's Rice Hotel. Bentsen, 54, became the fifth Democrat on a list that could contain more than ten names before the longest presidential campaign in American...
Among abundant absurdities, this film boasts two of the least likely chase scenes in screen history. One would have done nicely, but Report to the Commissioner is out to break records, not always deliberately. The first pursuit takes place down Broadway and adjacent side streets when one of New York's small army of street grotesques takes off after a taxicab. This particular fellow has no legs. He has to barrel through traffic on his little wheeled platform, propelling himself with his hands and hitching onto the rear bumpers of other vehicles for extra speed. The whole notion...
...second chase takes place along assorted rooftops and streets in midtown Manhattan. It features the spectacle of a bad guy (Tony King) bounding across the hoods of traffic-stalled taxicabs clad only in his trim-line boxer shorts. Even in New York City, this creates something of a stir, especially since the bad guy, who is black, is being pursued by a white good guy (Michael Moriarty), and both of them are armed. Hunter and hunted end up holding each other at bay in an elevator at Saks Fifth Avenue that has stopped between floors. While the cops surround...
...Chase first put together his calendar 18 years ago while working as a librarian at the Flint Journal. The idea was inspired by the many calls he received from reporters "looking for brighteners." Chase began hunting for mention of new events in newspaper clippings and verifying traditional ones by getting in touch with trade associations and other sponsoring groups. He then used his own small publishing concern, Apple Tree Press, to turn out the Calendar...
Radish Feast. Today Chase is bombarded with announcements from obscure trade groups and societies anxious to list events along the lines of the Old Fiddler's Reunion, the Muzzle Loaders festival, or the Feast of the Radishes. Occasionally he runs into troublesome sources like Cartoonist Al Capp, who insists that " 'Sadie Hawkins Day' comes whenever I say it comes in November." Because of Capp's unpredictability, Chase has had to drop the day from his publication. He also has problems with the promoters of National Procrastination Week. Their listing routinely arrives a week or so after...