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Hersh's indictment reignites the controversy over the culpability of two of the foremost survivors of the Watergate era, the past and present Secretaries of State. For Haig, the story comes at a particularly awkward time, as he struggles with foreign policy crises in the South Atlantic and Middle East while fending off what he perceives as challenges to his authority within the Reagan Administration. For Kissinger, it comes on the heels of the publication of his own memoirs about that troubled period, Years of Upheaval, in which he describes his admitted involvement in the wiretap operation...
...hyphenated. Most of the ones in To See You Again live in San Francisco (as does Adams), but they are there because of job opportunities and pleasant surroundings, not drugs, macrobiotics or hot tubs. Surrounded by hedonistic enticements, they still experience the tugs of conscience. They are at an awkward age, stranded somewhere between hip and square, liberated enough to take younger lovers and conventional enough to worry about the consequences...
During that decisive confrontation, King, taking advantage of the awkward format, ignored questions and his opponents remarks and used the opportunity to contrast himself' with the incumbent not only in substance but in style. He repeatedly ran through his checklist of issues, stating his support for capital punishment, a higher drinking age, limitations on government growth and his opposition to state funding for abortion. He did so, like a broken record, not only in his opening statement, but in response to practically every question asked, including those dealing with Kennedy's potential presidential candidacy. Ackerman's political leanings, and prison...
...House junior, played a 10:30 p.m. Sunday House hockey game against Kirkland. He came out of it with a double spiral fracture and shattering of the tibia as well as a fracture of the fibula of the right leg, courtesy of a late-game check at an exceedingly awkward angle...
Although Hemingway's whiny voice begins to grate after about 10 minutes, she plays Chris with the awkward natural charm of an ingenue. Donnelly, who ran for the 1976 Olympic team, shines as the insecure, driven Tory. And Scott Glenn does equally well as their hard-assed coach who drams of leading a male team with which he wouldn't have to worry about "Lynn Swann getting pregnant or Rocky Bleier forgetting his tampax." It's only unfortunate that Towne didn't leave just this kind of chauvinist mentality in his fictitous locker room, rather letting it lead...