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...angry?not at each other or at their staff?but at what they considered the obviousness of the Nixon-St. Clair tactics. While they respect St. Clair's legal savvy, they think that he has ventured into essentially political maneuverings. At that game, they assume, they are far more adept and experienced than...
...year-old Fulbright. Both are moderate progressives in a Southern context. An adroit, crowd-pleasing campaigner, Bumpers exploed into Arkansas politics by running against Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller in 1970 and burying him in a landslide. In the statehouse, the former small-town lawyer proved to be an adept administrator. He reorganized the government, improved educational and medical facilities, and lured more industry into the state. But after two terms as the nation's lowest paid Governor ($10,000 a year), he became bored with the job and anxious to move up the political ladder...
...brutal and mangy as it is, the movie still works. It is an adept and forceful B picture, deriving much of its energy from its own streamlined sleaziness and from the skills of its two stars, Elliott Gould and Robert Blake. Both of them have a kind of sour, dehydrated charm that is nicely used by Director-Writer Hyams, whose most notable previous effort was the screenplay for the noxious T.R. Baskin. Gould and Blake play a couple of L.A. vice cops who are offhandedly conscientious about their work and cynical about its results. Their superiors, ever mindful of valuable...
Most major bureaus now have law school graduates adept at slicing through legalistic gristle. Among them: Carl Stern of NBC, Jack Landau of the Newhouse chain, Wayne Greer of the Wall Street Journal, Lesley Oelsner of the New York Times and David Beckwith of TIME. Several have gained special recognition for their Watergate coverage. Stern, 36, became familiar to millions of viewers of the televised Watergate hearings when NBC Anchor Man John Chancellor would turn to his colleague and inquire, "What's the law on that, Carl?" After one of Stern's lucid explanations on some fine point...
...contributed more to the paranormal explosion than Uri Geller, the handsome, 26-year-old Israeli former nightclub magician who seems equally adept at telepathy, psychokinesis and precognition. "I don't want to spend my whole life in laboratories," Geller recently told TIME London Correspondent Lawrence Malkin. "I've just done a whole year at Stanford Research Institute [TIME, March 12]. Now I'll go on to other countries, and let them see if they know what...