Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Dirty Mind. Why Nixon wanted him is more obvious. The most patent reason: with the Democrats already touting the state of the economy as their likeliest issue for 1972, Nixon aimed to defuse that by putting a well-known, if scarcely liberal Democrat into his Administration's economic front office. But Connally personally may have nothing to lose. Says a close friend: "John knows the economy can't get much worse. He has nowhere to go but up. If the situation improves, he can get the lion's share of the credit. It is a situation that...
...state's 26 electoral votes could be the difference between winning and losing in 1972. By luring Connally to Washington, Nixon could win a strong protagonist or at least neutralize a potential antagonist in Texas Democratic politics. Said one Washington Democrat: "To my dirty mind, this appointment means only one thing: the start of 'Democrats for Nixon...
...Jackie Gleason on Rudolph Walter Wanderone Jr. goes on and on. When Gleason played a pool shark called Minnesota Fats in The Hustler (1961), Wanderone, then known as New York Fats, was moved to sue. But the cash value of the movie's publicity made him change his mind-and his monicker; instead of trying to beat them, he joined them. As Minnesota Fats, he prospered, became president of a billiards-equipment company and starred in a TV show. Now he, not Gleason, is playing Minnesota Fats in a movie called The Player, currently being shot in Baton Rouge...
...subjects. When he shows the 19th century harbor of Honfleur (in Hurrah, We're Outward Bound!) or the 18th century Thameside (in London Bridge Is Falling Down!), he knows as much about the shops and ships, the rigs and ragamuffins as a sharp eye and a keen mind can acquire. The result encourages young (and old) to brood upon details and be delighted by the beauty of black ink and watercolor washes that blend a Delacroix-like delicacy with the liveliness of Thomas Rowlandson. Erie Canal follows a barge through Clinton's Ditch (circa 1850), seen in four...
...fire (blacks now, Jews next is the thought), then reads the Declaration of Independence to justify talk about Revolution Now. Eventually Bernstein and Guests Otto Preminger and TV Reporter Barbara Walters, somewhat apologetically and with few results, try to pin down the Panthers about what they really have in mind for the future beyond ghetto breakfasts and the high cost of bail...