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During the early weeks of the $71.8 billion budget brawl, Lyndon kept himself uncommitted, heckled the Republicans from the sidelines while awaiting answers to a budget questionnaire that he had mailed out to 39,000 Texans. The replies, plus an Easter visit home, convinced him that economy sentiment was running strong. He saw a big political issue in the making, and he set his three-point party line...
...moment, at a Greenwich Village brawl. Chayefsky almost dares to face the moment of truth. Hero Charlie is all set to chuck his scruples and climb in the sack with a ludicrously pathetic little bohemienne. But then he realizes what a dope he is to be prowling the streets after something that doesn't seem to exist, when all the time a cozy little wife is waiting for him back home. Suddenly he knows that he "loves" his wife. The conclusion is apparently supposed to be a daring one. At the risk of offending the entire prostitute population, Playwright...
...blood-gushing days of the 1930s, Frank Brewster, chief slugger for the Teamsters' Union on the West Coast, once walloped a cop in a picket-line brawl, was hauled off to headquarters, beaten almost to death -and arose from his knees to cut a swath of destruction with his manacled hands. But Frank Brewster decided he wanted to be more than a brick-fisted mug. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, From Goon to Gent...
...when the Democrats pushed through the Mansfield amendment, Knowland and Bridges telephoned Ike's headquarters in Thomasville, Ga. to advise acceptance of the change. An all-out push to restore the original wording, they argued, would inevitably bring on a damaging congressional brawl. Unenthusiastically Ike said O.K., issued a statement that the Senate text seemed "intended and designed to accomplish the purposes outlined by the President." Probable result: the Democratic version will pass both houses with the near unanimity that the President fervently wants...
...funny and free as they seem to be, the order of these images is quite important, and Donskoy has paid great attention to their detail. In the midst of a huge brawl between Gorky's uncles, the camera comes suddenly to rest on the spout of the tea service, which is soon discovered by Uncle Yakov who turns the service slightly so that the boiling water pours gently over Uncle Mikhail's hand. Donskoy is a magician at using montage; to accentuate the motion of his picture, he stops...