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...gentlewoman, Miss Edwina is the greatest single influence on Williams' life and work. When Tennessee uses such locutions as "the study of equitation" for horseback riding or "none of us had breath to waste on the totally fruitless complaint that we were not being fed with spoons of precious metal," that is his mother talking. The arias of gentility in Williams' plays, whether they be those of Amanda Wingfield, Blanche du Bois or Hannah Jelkes (The Night of the Iguana), derive from maternal speech patterns. Mrs. Williams' predilections are also present in her son's fondness...
Marked as a comer during Watergate hearings but has done little since ... A good compromise bet to woo the South and appease the liberals, and popular through the Middle West besides ... Sturdy, vigorous, everybody's second choice ... Biggest drawback: his nomination could cost the G.O.P. a precious Senate seat...
This is a considerable triumph, for the script gives them precious little to work with. The plot line is but minimally suspenseful and the dialogue generally banal. Director Millar has a nice feel for his handsome Oregon locations but none at all for staging action. His tendency is to back away from it and to minimize it so that even a climactic ride down a white-water river on a raft load ed with nitroglycerin turns out to be dull...
...would willingly have submitted to that trial, and I confess that if I'd foreseen it myself, I might not have gone. But now I feel better and stronger for having done it, and I suppose that the next time someone lavishes envy on me for having spend seven precious months in the City of Light I will compose myself and smile as I might smile at a line from Hemingway...
With the federal turndown, city officials struggled to gain precious minutes against the deadline for default-3 p.m., when the banks would close and bondholders would have to be paid the interest due on their maturing New York bonds. In an unusual concession, some banks agreed to stay open at least an hour later. Meanwhile, Carey pleaded with Shanker. Separately, Beame pleaded with Shanker. Then, at midafternoon, a worn and weary Shanker stepped before TV cameras to say that he would indeed "advise" the teachers' trustees to advance the necessary money. In Washington, Ford reacted cynically by asking...