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...because if Massachusetts adopts this amendment, other states will doubtless (see "1776" for proof) follow. And as soon as New York passes the amendment, those Yankee Stadium bleacherites will refrain from throwing their empty Rheingold cans at the enemy rightfielder so as not to lose their nickel of a deposit...
...indulgent manner, Gray does a disservice to those who must confront them in real life. Stephanie, in her interminable conversations with a hip Jesuit friend, rhapsodizes about her yearning for freedom. Yet every time he suggests that she take a real step towards it, she lapses into a whining refrain about how tough it is for women. By this time, of course, one has completely lost interest in any of the things Stephanie is searching for; it becomes increasingly hard to believe that what she wants can be worth having...
Kizzy bears a mulatto son whom she calls George. But she also whispers into the infant's ear the African name of his grandfather, Kunta Kinte. The passing on of the name becomes a refrain throughout the book. It binds George, who becomes trainer of Massa's fighting cocks, to his own past. In turn, he passes on "Kunta Kinte" to his son Tom, who is emancipated after the Civil War. Tom is a master blacksmith who, as a freed slave, moves his family to Henning, Tenn. The whites welcome his skills but will not allow a black...
...Whitehead's powerful script gives Roberts and Finney both the concentration of focus (no kids or neighbors barging in to tear them from each other's throats) and the depth of antagonism needed for tour de force performances. And Page has the good sense to refrain from superfluous footage and to let their acting say it all. (One shudders to imagine the possibilities: newsreel shots of the maturing Beatles with each jump in time, perhaps, or a montage of their interspliced faces for some misspent Bergmanesque ambiguity...
Franklin Roosevelt made his name a catch-phrase joke, but Hamilton Fish is still battling for the last laugh. A flinty New York conservative and 13-term member of the House (1920-45), Fish helped inspire the celebrated 1940 Roosevelt refrain citing Congressmen "Martin, Barton and Fish" as three banes of New Deal legislation. Now a sprightly 87, Fish recently surfaced with a new book lambasting Roosevelt (F.D.R.: The Other Side of the Coin), and he shows no signs of slowing down. Last week the hardy widower announced plans to marry Alice Curtis Desmond, 79, a friend of 40 years...