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What had cooled the committee members' ardor to investigate Lance? For one thing, the Democratic Senators doubtless were reluctant to tackle Carter's close and powerful associate. But other important reasons seem to have been the inconclusiveness of the charges against the budget director and his masterful, good-humored performance in the hearing room. Said one committee member afterward: "It would have been easier for us to go on the attack if he had come up here with a battery of lawyers and a prepared statement. But Lance came alone and barehanded. You've got to respect...
What had changed since that placid blackout night of 1965? Doubtless the heat and humidity made some difference; in 1965 the power failed on a pleasantly cool evening in November. But much more had changed in a dozen years. Respect for law and authority has declined; thieves often go unpunished; crime and violence stalk the slums. So, of course, does poverty. Unemployment among young ghetto blacks is as high as 40%, v. more than...
...sentences by means of computer beeps, and the dolphins were on the verge of learning three-word sentences. All that research, which cost close to $500,000, is down the drain. Worse, says Herman. Kea and Puka, untrained to feed themselves and unable to communicate with Pacific dolphins, are doubtless dead by now, the victims of starvation, sharks -and mindless good intentions...
...which I caught on its home stage). But one must take into account the fact that the cast was in strange surroundings, and, further, that three of the important roles were assumed here by players who had not done them in Connecticut. In this respect, Gile's guilt will doubtless become Gile's gilt as the run proceeds. Clearly he does know the style of the period, and his direction is almost always inventive, often hilarious, and sometimes touching. There were a few times when the staging was too cramped, but one must remember that the sets and blocking were...
...Ryan's bestselling history, does permit Britain's acting fraternity to redeem its generals' follies. Whatever is lively and memorable in the film, which is not much, is provided by the English members of the most expensive all-star cast in recent memory. Their Yank allies, doubtless because they had second-banana roles in the original production 33 years ago, have dim, brief lives on the screen...