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...risky public appearances. Stalin has the limo stop alongside a drunk, rolls down the window and lets the drunk see...twin Stalins! "Drink a little less," Uncle Joe advises, and the limo roars off. This Stalin takes in the world with a savage candor. At a meeting with his hatchetman Lavrenty Beria, "I caught a whiff of that hideous cologne that Beria favored, the cologne of an unctuous headwaiter, the cologne of a rapist...
...Slater's spectacular colorlessness cannot be attributed to her lack of talent alone. Director Jeannot Szwarc, with the blood of "Jaws II" already on his hands, is carrying out his own niche as a hatchetman of promising sequels. Given a cast of the most talented hams in Hollywood, he squeezes as bland a performance as possible from each one. Dunaway is left to rehash the residue of her Joan Crawfordisms from "Mommy Dearest," charging through some genuinely funny lines with the comic timing...
Lindsay attributed the Winthrop victory to team spirit. "Everybody shows up for the games so everyone has a sense where we're going to be." Alex "Hatchetman" Vik, varsity golfer and a former all-Oslo player, said "We outroughed Kirkland House...
Cass Sunstein was the hatchetman on the Crimson's Murderer's Row, despite a bulbous and festering blister that sprouted on his racquet hand while he was cramming for his law boards. Sunstein throttled his opponent in four games after the hand was hermetically sealed in a sable golf glove...
...More recently Hunt has been a special White House consultant; he served for several months in 1971 and 1972 on narcotics intelligence work. He was recommended for the job by Nixon's Special Counsel Charles W. Colson, admired and feared in Washington as the Administration's chief hatchetman and master of its dirty-trick department. Colson and Hunt are alumni of Brown University and friends. Lately Hunt has been working for a private public relations firm that does some Government business. One coup: he persuaded Julie Eisenhower to star in a 30-second HEW spot...