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...likes neckties, almost all of them striped, and he sometimes carries an extra in his briefcase for a midday change. He has been given a bunch of fancy robes for his new swimming pool, but he prefers an old red terry-cloth number. His blue leather chair from Alexandria is the one he seeks out at night for his homework. If he has a favorite musical number, it is probably Oklahoma! Judging by his reaction to movies this year, That's Entertainment is at the top of his list. He does not watch much television...
Another Part of the Forest, like Hellman's earlier play The Little Foxes, concerns the Hubbard family of Alabama, a nouveau riche, money-hungry bunch in which the strong make a practice of destroying the weak. In choosing the subject, Hellman has gone beyond her immediate roots--divided between New York and New Orleans--to the more remote history of her mother's clan, the New houses, an Alabama banking family who had moved to New Orleans and whose squabbles Hellman witnessed as a child at Sunday dinner...
...nosedive came--a total collapse, and the fishermen cussed them as hopeless idiots (they'd always known it) and netted all those frustrations, just to haul them back into the sea of their passion for the 1975 season, when most is forgotten and the boys are a bunch of heros again. That Freddy Lynn, by god, he's a natural--haven't seen a swing like that since Ted Williams...and Pudge Fisk is back and better than ever. The passion is for a pennant and in Fenway a lot of Boston gets together and tries to find something...
...greathurlers. An Earned Run Average of 3.50 is unheard of, and the relief pitching is so bad that the bullpen ought to be seized by a people's tribunal and converted into several homes for working-class families. Even the cheerleading Boston press has become exasperated with this bunch: Globe columnist Bob Ryan in a recent evaluation of the team that drew much are from the more reverent fans, wrote that relievers Regger Cleveland and Diego Segin should be placed in a small airplane with Amelia Earhart at the controls, a comment that, for all its validity, led two players...
...veto of the housing bill. In their most embarrassing failure of all, the Democratic leaders attacked Ford's energy conservation program as weak and ineffective but could not pass an adequate alternative of their own. Complained Democratic Representative Richard Boiling of Missouri: "We're looking like a bunch of idiots." Indeed, as public approval of Ford increased (to 55% in the latest Gallup poll), public esteem of Congress plummeted...