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Linoleum. Perhaps the biggest factor working for Lindsay is Procaccino's failure to rally either the Democrats or the independents. The most conservative of five primary candidates, he won the Democratic nomination with only a third of the vote, and has had difficulty expanding that base. Many prominent Democrats...
The working-class students differ most sharply from the revolutionaries in their attitudes toward their parents and the education they are getting. Far from feeling alienated, they speak of their fathers and mothers with deep affection. Eric Priestley is constantly pained by the thought that his 65-year-old mother...
The movie ends abruptly here. Director Hill has too much affection for Butch and Sundance to slobber over their death agonies. He has partly compensated for the dreary pacing which prevailed earlier. Yet the awkward, and frequent, overlay of farce and social comment has marred an otherwise excellent spoof.
Different Kind of Affection. The crime was as bizarre as it was mystifying. The younger Saikin testified that the trouble began in the spring of 1967, when he brought the girl, whom he planned to marry, down to the farm to meet his family. At first, he said, his fa...
Underlined Horror. Books like this tend to be ghostwritten, but Mrs. King wrote this one herself. The resulting weaknesses are also the book's strength. If there is an overabundance of expressions of gratitude to myriad friends, there is also much affection that might have been mawkish if presented...