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...Pinnok-S. White. A half dozen pencils begin to scratch away at their notepads, then, thinking the better of it, return to position one to ready themselves for the next question. "But, no, you want I should do the interview?" Jodorowsky asks playfully, pleased that he's called their bluff...
With a touch of gallows humor the bluff but shaken citizens of beleaguered Belfast have taken to asking: "How many bombing days until Christmas?" In a heightened campaign of terror, the outlawed Irish Republican Army is apparently trying to bring the center of the city to a shuttered standstill by Christmas. Last week brought twelve major explosions and 27 deaths, the highest toll ever in Northern Ireland's troubled history. In addition, I.R.A. gunmen murdered three members of the Ulster Defense Regiment, a local militia with 6,000 members, most of them Protestants. One of the victims, however...
...thing he sees up there on the screen in my pictures. A superhuman character who has all the answers, is doubly cool, exists on his own without society or the help of society's police forces." Adds Actress Susan Clark, who worked with Eastwood in Coogan's Bluff: "Part of his sex appeal is the constant mystery: How deeply does he feel? How deeply is he involved in life...
...effect, the public and business members of the Pay Board decided to call labor's bluff that it would work against the program unless all union demands were met and see what would happen. At least for the moment, all that happened was angry noise from Meany & Co. The labor members did not walk off the Pay Board, as they had made many implied threats to do. Union leaders correctly feel that they are in a political trap: a walkout, or strikes against Pay Board decisions, might set them up as the villains if Phase II fails to bring...
...bluff, freewheeling manner that serves Connally so well in domestic matters has a jolting effect in international affairs. Foreign ministers and bankers, accustomed to a discreet, subtle dialogue, were outraged by Connally's unyielding tone and unvarnished demands that foreign nations revalue their currencies, lower their trade barriers and increase their defense contributions. Though he has softened his approach lately, it is at least questionable whether he will ever become attuned to the quiet nuances of international bargaining. Yet a miscalculation in this area could at worst lead to a ruinous world trade war and politically dangerous disruption of traditional...