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...selected by Nixon as acting director because of, above all else, that subservience. And it is his devotion to Nixon that has created the nomination controversy and has thrust the President and the Senate toward another classic collision over their respective powers. Nixon may well be forced to abandon the nomination, or he may persuade Gray to withdraw?something that anyone who respects the chain of command as Gray does would obligingly...
...although Gray's zeal sounds extreme. It is not at all appropriate, however, in a police official whose agency prides itself on arriving objectively at facts. A political police force is obviously anathema to a democracy. It may well have been asking far too much to expect Gray to abandon such deeply held attitudes after he was shifted...
Eckstein explained that his commitment to Data Resources seems to have mushroomed and that he could not now abandon his ties to the firm...
...Cross does not do this, exactly, but it does have a comic sense of what a compulsive monologue is really like. And when actors as lively as these three push these monologues into gleeful expressions of extreme emotion, a graceful slapstick abandon keeps the audience laughing beyond the applause. Each actor found a tone that could inject a shot of the ludicrous into any situtation. Things build until the mere sight of one of them lying immobile on the floor is unbearably funny-- it's that feeling of knowing that whatever comes next will be hilarious, whatever...
...nearly demolished it. Her friends call her style "brutal." She stays in her patented crouch through her entire run. More prudent racers straighten up from time to time-at the cost of a fraction of a second-as emergencies dictate. Proell disdains such caution and her total abandon has already won her two World Cups. She is assured of a third before the spring thaw. This season she won all eight women's downhill races, becoming the world's first skier-male or female-to score a sweep in one of the three Alpine events.* In late December...