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...Halsey) evokes, in the character of Vic, the kind of wary protagonist whose abdication of personal responsibility made anti-heroes out of Dean and Brando, Fonda and Hopper. The film builds to a crazy, disorganized hillside ceremony in which the entire town of Buddy, Calif., comes to cheer its boy Vic off to the nationals. Vic sees it all as a shuck, refuses to go and hits the road out of town, pursued by his new fiancee Drenna Valentine (Anne Archer), who talks very sincerely in movie-magazine captions: "And the dumb part is I really do understand...
...unhappy with the Redskins. He and Allen, the 'Skins revivalist leader, would hit it off fine. And the 'Skins are Nixon's kind of people. Allen's Redskins are a composite of rejects, over-the-hillers, and rejuvenated hacks. Just like Nixon's White House squad. Allen's Redskins cheer themselves and pat themselves on the back when they succeed. Just like Nixon's men. Allen's Redskins sulk when they lose. Just like Nixon's men. Allen, the human re-tread wizard, has made a career of reviving worn-out careers. Nixon has been through it all before...
...cheer the valor and glory of this courageous little country...
...recession but only a slowdown in the U.S. economy. Investment managers also consider the stocks of many big corporations undervalued, because the companies were posting record profits even while the prices of their shares were sliding sharply earlier this year. Finally, investors are drawing a kind of perverse cheer from the persistent worldwide shortages of oil, aluminum, plastics and other basic industrial materials. The shortages, they think, will enable the companies that make those materials to keep profits growing right through the expected economic slowdown next year, because demand and prices for their products will stay high...
...going to mean a lot for her, a lot more busy time, a lot more killing time over tea and tennis and telephone talk. Not that King's money-making will bowl her over -- she's probably got her own bank account. But the sexual victory should clinch a cheer straight from her heart. "It's the principle of the thing" -- listen to her next evening over martinis with her husband -- "that counts." And there will be Libber bantering over dinner like a replay of the Battle. And, gutfelt, she will make a martyr of Billy Jean King, while...