Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Democrat in his youth, Donovan supported Reagan in 1976 but did not become a prominent campaign worker until June 1979, when he was asked to help raise funds. He persuaded Frank Sinatra to fly in for a Sunday night fund raiser at his country club. The result: $175,000 in contributions for Reagan-ten times more than expected...
...modestly furnished living room of a Gdansk apartment, the little man with a flowing reddish-brown mustache chain-smokes Polish cigarettes as he chats with a group of visitors. His slender, brunette wife is in the kitchen preparing Sunday dinner as his six children, ranging in age from eleven years to four months, scamper about the flat. At one moment he glances briefly at a flickering TV screen, chuckles as Laurel and Hardy fall out of bed, then resumes his conversation. Six months ago, Lech...
...said he would stay home in Sussex, England, even if there was a funeral. There was not. Lennon's body was cremated in a suburban New York cemetery, and Ono issued a statement inviting everyone "to participate from wherever you are" in a ten-minute silent vigil on Sunday afternoon...
...week began, the Polish crisis was Washington's major foreign policy concern. Alarmed by fresh intelligence reports of Soviet military activity, President Carter summoned key advisers to the White House Sunday morning, and later in the day met with the National Security Council and congressional leaders. After these sessions, the White House said that "preparations for possible Soviet intervention in Poland appear to have been completed," and warned that such a step would have "very adverse consequences for U.S.-Soviet relations...
...beloved onomatopoetics of yesteryear, redolent of childhood's long, rainy Sunday afternoons, cannot help recalling that the comics were the popular art that most radically stylized experience. Sometimes artfully, more often not, they reduced it to its basic components of violence, disgust, fear, heroics and sometimes laughter. From their beginnings, the comics and the movies have lived together symbolically; there is scarcely a major comic-page figure who has not been reincarnated on the screen, or a comic strip that has not been influenced by the way movie directors frame and compose scenes. Yet the transitions from one medium...