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Democrat Henry Jackson (who is married to Anderson's former secretary), voted no. Proxmire smiled with surprise, lifted a closed fist in a "go, team" gesture. Anderson, who had voted for the plane before, explained that his mail had run heavily against it this time. Friends suggested that he was influenced by his wife Henrietta, who has become aroused about ecological hazards...
...violence. When the speakers' right to speak was crushed so was my right to hear them. I asked myself where I might find redress; I who have no organized mob to support me and no ready means to defend my rights with force. When unchecked power raises its fist to smash my liberties, must I despair...
...sweet music of thunderous applause fell upon the pink ears of Prima Donna Joan Sutherland after her premiere performance of Lucia di Lammermoor in Hamburg last week. But oh! Boos followed for the weak conducting of her husband Richard Bonynge in the orchestra pit. Shaking her fist in fury, Miss Sutherland stomped onto the stage and stormed off again -refusing further curtain calls. Next day the Hamburg papers carried jittery editorials, worrying about whether Sutherland & Co. would pack up and go. No problem. Soon she was down at the Hamburg docks, her fist clenched now around a champagne bottle, with...
...Marciano and I can't keep this stuff up all my life. I should stay out of barrooms, I suppose. But I happen to like them." He has also violently struck at least one woman in a rage, and twice he has injured himself by ramming his fist against a wall and a mirror. There is gentleness and mundaneness in Scott's life as well ?he is now in a period of relative personal tranquillity?but the record leaves little doubt that when he draws on his experiences for his acting, he has considerable reserve...
...viewpoint-are really built of the differences between the sexes and the complexities of sexuality, then Kate Millett actually challenges him with two fiats clenched. One, as we have just seen, defies his static notions of sex roles, his rigid mindset for masculinity and femininity. But Millett's other fist is more threatening to Mailer by far. For with her other fist, he thinks she wants to knock out all the mysteries of the womb, knock them out, scatter them into the stratosphere, and in the meantime, replace them with technology...