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...opponents have also gained another delay of at least three weeks before the issue reaches the Senate floor. One Republican Senator who favors Carswell estimates that there might now be up to 40 votes against him. His opponents hope to persuade others, especially the key moderate Republicans, to be absent when the nomination comes up, rather than cast a vote for mediocrity. Even the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has revealed that he would have much preferred the rejected Clement Haynsworth to Carswell on the ground that Haynsworth is more capable of appreciating...
...world that has the audacity to be imperfect is still molten. And their alternate curses at and apostrophes to the female pudenda retain a primal humor. But anyone who has read or watched the real Henry Miller knows that the author possesses a sly, ribald wit that is entirely absent from Rip Torn's somnambulistic impersonation. Leeching meals and wives from the bourgeois, Miller-Torn provides neither charm nor intelligence; it is impossible to believe that he would be invited out for a drink, much less in for the night. Moreover, though his dialogue is fixed...
...other hand. I must say that the old Locb habits of overproduction (absent this year) are, alas, being replaced by new rituals. Once again, we have props and backstage machinery in front of us for the play's duration: once again, the house lights are turned on at various times during the action; once again, there are entrances and exits through the aisles. In the case of Next Time these touches create an informal atmosphere that reinforces the script's essential lack of theatricality...
...people must stop gauging their self respect by how well they mimic straight marriages. Gay marriages will have the same problems as straight ones except in burlesque. For the usual legitimacy and pressures which keep straight marriages together are absent, e.g. kids, what parents think, what neighbors think...
Masaracchio, filling in for the absent Ed Nosal, won the 35 pound weight throwwith a toss of 52' 1", while Coleman regained some of his last year's form with a 6' 6" high jump victory...