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...chores by subjects and produced a more tightly reasoned and precedent-studded brief on time. Busy supervising the various Watergate investigations and prosecutions, Jaworski nevertheless gave the Supreme Court arguments his personal attention. He also had the skilled aid of Philip Lacovara, 30, his chief counsel and perhaps the sharpest mind on the 38-member legal staff. Despite the liberal image of the Jaworski team, Lacovara, a conservative, is a former Goldwater activist...
...suddenly calling Vice President Gerald Ford to his Executive Office Building hideaway for an hour-long chat on Friday. The summons perhaps was intended to show that Nixon was still in control of the Administration. A day earlier, Ford had reflected the deepening national anxiety by voicing his sharpest criticism of the Administration since taking office. He deplored the "crisis of confidence" that Watergate has created and?in a pointed reference to the transcripts?said: "And while it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed page, we cannot delete characterization from people's minds with a wave...
...that it has probably fallen even further since then. A similar index maintained by the Conference Board has dropped 40 points since last autumn, to less than 60 today. Albert Sindlinger, whose Swarthmore, Pa., telephone polling organization takes weekly readings of consumer sentiment, has recorded what he calls the sharpest drop in confidence in 25 years...
...Waterston makes a gentle, intelligent Nick, but the role is largely passive. The movie's sharpest characterization is Bruce Bern's Tom Buchanan, a figure of imperiousness, steeped in contempt that comes from too much ease, too much money. When he and Gatsby confront Daisy in a hotel room one afternoon, the film catches the intensity that Fitzgerald conveyed in the sculpted contours of his prose...
Like Ehninger, most of the other male characters in the book are pallid. It is the women who are vivid and demonstrate by far the sharpest appetites. Beeky's wife, for example, is a ribald triple divorcee, an exploded sex bomb 15 years older than her husband. A menopausal female member of the firm demonstrates maternal ambitions by deviously trying to get a young lawyer to marry her daughter. Another woman solicitor, young and brilliant, undergoes great turmoil when she leaves Shepard, Putney, etc., where her husband is also a lawyer, in order to head for Washington...