Word: teetering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this movie invokes Director Wilder's earlier Sunset Boulevard, we are asked to accept a melodra matic manner of storytelling and characterization that is outmoded by at least a quarter of a century. Settings, dialogue, the very looks on the faces of everyone in Fedora's household teeter on the ludicrous...
...bulging eyes and thin, strangled voice convey inner torment and rage better than any film star today. He frequently suggest a cross between Anthony Perkins and Jack Nicholson--a homey, sardonic, seventies Norman Bates--and those quivering depths make his comparatively restrained performances in The Great Gatsby and Smile teeter devastatingly on the brink of an explosion. But in his all-out roles--in Silent Running, Black Sunday, Coming Home-- Dern makes an art of modern crack-up: shaking, sobbing, barnstorming, often hitting false notes, losing control, making us fear that both the actor and the character will spill over...
...Incumbents running for re-election -most of them are Democrats-start out with an enormous advantage. They already have trained staffs, are better known and can raise money more easily than their opponents. Says Detroit Pollster Robert Teeter: "Any incumbent Congressman who loses deserves it. "According to Political Scientist Vincent Naramore of St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vt., statistics indicate that incumbents have only a 10% chance of losing...
...Convinced that China would progress only if the principles of revolution remained vital, he encouraged the Chinese people's awareness of the perpetual struggle between two poles--the revolutionary line and the "capitalist road" or "revisionism." Mao's teachings acted as a fulcrum on which these lines would weigh, teeter a bit, and finally reach a temporary equilibrium. In the process individuals and institutions risked annihilation, including the chairman himself. As the programs of the Great Leap and the Cultural Revolution ("Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of though contend.") nearly edged out of control...
...unleashed our troops." Ford also talked about his list with nine top advisers over coffee and nightcaps in his hotel suite until shortly after 5 a.m. the night of his nomination. The nine: Griffin, Rockefeller, White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney, Texas Senator John Tower, Campaign Pollster Robert Teeter, Campaign Strategist Stuart Spencer, Counsellor John Marsh, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Veteran G.O.P. Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow. When the consultants adjourned, exhausted, they were still uncertain whether the President had made up his mind. Not until they reconvened four hours later did Ford's final choice emerge...