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...Gregory of the Lions, the Crimson's Pierre, and Tom Welsh of Penn fill the defensive back shots...
...which he is. But besides being a physician from Bremen, Ind., 20 miles from South Bend, Bowen is an astute politician who has been speaker of Indiana's G.O.P.-dominated house of representatives since 1967. Bowen and his courtly Democratic opponent, former (1961 -65) Governor Matthew E. Welsh, 60, both had the same prescription for Indiana: a reduction in property taxes, to be made possible by hikes in state sales and income taxes and increased state aid to local schools. The campaign thus focused on who had allowed Indiana's tax levies to soar in the first place...
...nothing to say. Truffaut has never had very much to say. But once he said things well. Here he simply loses all ironic distance and falls list into sentimentality. At one point. Muriel is seen running at twilight over hills and through trees, shouting into the wind in her Welsh-French accent. "Claude, jetadore" while Georges Delerue's weepy score rises to crescendo. It is the sort of scene more expected to spill from the pens of masturbatory adolescents or nineteenth century novelists...
...Hoosier State has always liked Richard Nixon, and he had no difficulty capturing the state's 13 electoral votes with almost 65 per cent of those cast. His coattails pulled Republican Otis Bowen to victory in the Otis Bowen swamped popular former governor Matthew Welsh with 60 per cent of the vote...
...home in Derbyshire. There the Midlands meet the North Country and green hedges give way to gray stone walls. "Alan is a Derbyshire boy," says Actor Jeremy Brett, a close friend. "That's one better than being a Welshman. The Derby hills have a magic like the Welsh mountains, and they all get this folk mystique." Bates reveled in his role in Women in Love partly because it was filmed on location there and partly because he feels close to Fellow Midlander D.H. Lawrence. His part, in fact, has been interpreted as Lawrence's alter...