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...while Beame (at about 15%) has been losing ground, and Cuomo has been picking up support. But there can be important shifts before the primary on Sept. 8. If no candidate gets 40%, a runoff will be held just eleven days later. In November the winner will face Republican Roy Goodman, a highly able state senator who will be an underdog in the Democratic city...
...Texas Supreme Court. Added to Yarbrough's other troubles, which range from 17 civil suits to a forgery indictment to an 84-count disbarment petition, the recording may well herald an early end to one of the strangest Texan judicial careers since the heyday of Hanging Judge Roy Bean...
...actors do their best to avoid rising above the script. The star of the movie, Roy Scheider of Jaws fame, looks like George C. Scott without Scott's nose, but he is also missing Scott's talent. The script forces the only talented actor to commit suicide near the onset of the movie. Too bad for him, maybe, but a great chance to splatter some more blood on the screen...
These backgrounders do not add an awful lot to our enjoyment of subsequent proceedings, but the mini-action sequences promise bigger, better things to come. This implied promise of livelier things to come also helps get us through a middle passage where Roy Scheider, as the punk criminal, and Bruno Cremer, as the banker, are seen to suffer interminable misery in some of the most squalid squalor anybody this side of a PBS documentarian has put on a screen in a long time. Friedkin has probably been more rigorous about all this than the requirements of popular film making dictate...
...Yanks then jumped all over starter Reggie Clevaland (Munson, Roy White, Mickey Rivers, and Chris Chambliss jumped the hardest) and streaked to a 4-1 lead, while the Boston bats-lukewarm at best in the first two tilts of the weekend--were no better than popsicle sticks for the first eight innings, as Yankee hurler Don Gullett cooled any Sox offense...