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More fleshed out is the man she married and, after two children, divorced--a New York literary agent identified only as "B." Coming from a family of Jewish left-wing intellectuals, he was the perfect Lochinvar to take her out of Rhode Island but not to replace her sainted father. On one hand: "If it hadn't been for him, I thought, I would not have heard Montand sing Les Feuilles Mortes or read Mrs. Dalloway or tasted Brie or drunk any wine beyond sherry." On the other: "Lose one's temper or burst into tears, and he would...
...meets Franz Kafka" and describes its unique, post-Orwellian setting as "somewhere on the Los Angeles-Belfast border." The film's hero, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), shambles efficiently through his job at the Ministry of Information records department but lives for his dreams, in which he is girded like Lochinvar, aloft like Icarus, fighting to save a fair heroine from giant samurai and evil, baby-faced thugs. One day he meets Jill Layton (Kim Griest), a truck driver who lived in the flat above the late Mr. Buttle's and looks exactly like Sam's dream girl. To be near...
Twenty years after his last bow, the paradigm of detective-as-Lochinvar is still Raymond Chandler's incorrodable shamus, Philip Marlowe. He was, of course, a total fiction. As Chandler admitted, "the real-life private eye is a sleazy little drudge... a strong-arm guy with no more personality than a blackjack. He has about as much moral stature as a stop-and-go sign...
...last a year, it would cost Justice 66,000 man-hours, or $534,000. CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid was amused by a time-sheet category called "de minimis time," which is supposed to include all minor interruptions. "Computers read Latin already," quipped Sevareid, who described Kleindienst as "a new Lochinvar" riding a computer instead of a white horse and trying to rescue the Government from inefficiency-a goal that has eluded many others in the past...
Though he insists that the governorship is his only goal, a victory for Reagan will inevitably catapult him onto the national scene as the G.O.P.'s Lochinvar from the West. His name is certain to crop up in connection with the party's vice presidential and even presidential nominations in 1968 and 1972. In any event, as Governor of California, in control of a pivotal delegation at the G.O.P. convention, he will be a major influence in selecting whichever candidate the party chooses...