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...mister," asks the fat lady on the in dusty Texas sidewalk, "were you really Mac Sledge?" Mac (Robert Duvall) squints and says, "Yes, I guess I was." A successful country songwriter is what he was, and the husband of a high-octane singer named Dixie (Betty Buckley), till a nasty temper and too much liquor drove him out of Dixie's limelight. Now he is trying to find a modest parcel of dignity for himself, his new wife Rosa Lee (Tess Harper) and her boy Sonny (Allan Hubbard). But it's hard: "I'm missin...
...black tide labeled "Oil Glut." Headlines have celebrated an incipient price war among the OPEC states. Reduced demand, it seems, is finally forcing down the price of oil, breaking up the widely hated OPEC cartel in the process. "The free market came to the rescue," exulted William F. Buckley recently in the National Review...
With surprising unanimity, however, The New York Times, William Safire, The New Republic, and Buckley have all come out against passing on the price break to American consumers. Lower prices, they agree, will lead to higher consumption, so that OPEC would, in Safire's words, "be back in the saddle again." Instead, says the Times, we should "build on the exporters' current weakness" with an oil import tax. Safire and Buckley enthusiastically concur, arguing for a tax to "smash the price fixers and supply-controllers," and to "tear OPEC apart." An oil import tax, these foes of Big Oil contend...
...Industries, Inc. Soon, however, Sunbeam Chief Robert Gwinn and 160 of his colleagues found themselves out of jobs. Complained one executive: "They went at us with a meat ax. If Allegheny is a white knight, God save us from white knights." But Allegheny has complaints too. Chairman Robert Buckley said he discovered in Sunbeam "problems under the surface that were greater than they seemed...
...journals of opinion on the left or right, such as the New Republic, the Nation and the National Review, generally expect to see their own attitudes confirmed and their enemies savaged. (In the National Review they hope to see their own case put more stylishly by Editor William F. Buckley Jr.) Journals of opinion pursue subjects of particular interest at greater length than newspapers, but, in no small measure because their budgets are small, these subjects are often treated with more depth of feeling and reflection than depth of reporting...