Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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That line is all right, within limits. If memory serves, the comic-strip Popeye spent some time in just that...
...slowly, weighed down by the invisible chains of Hardy's famous Fate. His leading lady, Nastassia Kinski, a truly beautiful young woman (see last year's Stay As You Are), is further burdened by her attempt to speak with an authentic West Country accent. She does all right considering that she is German, but the effort seems to slow her speech. Or maybe she was directed to carry on portentously. Even her love scenes are handled with ludicrous discretion. One comes to imagine that she has been impregnated with her illegitimate child by Fate itself, since...
Their decision forced Mason to cancel plans for a Christmas marriage to a 29-year-old divorcee with whom he has taken up residence. Said he: "It's all right for the judges to say it is not unreasonable. I had to live with it." He hardly shares Brenda's hopes for a reconciliation and now must delay his second wedding 3½ years to satisfy a five-year living-apart provision that the 1969 law offers as another basis for divorce. His fiancee remains optimistic that everything will work out, even their desire to have children. Mason...
...Third Baseman Ken Reitz, second-year Outfielder Leon Durham and a St. Louis minor leaguer to be named later. That seemingly casual negotiation was symbolic of baseball's return to its old ways after five years of free-agent chaos. For the first time since players won the right to play out their options and sell their services on the open market, owners and executives have slowed the pace of free-agent signing and turned to the traditional methods of swapping players and beefing up farm systems...
...nosiness and bias" of the press in his criticism. Unless this "savaging of public officials" abates, Simon says, businessmen will not go into Government, leaving the field "to academics and neuters." Simon is a contentious fellow, and many of his difficulties are of his own making. But he is right about the atmosphere created by leaks...