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...Nixon's America the language tends to be angular and mechanical, to speak of systems and order, in McGovern's nation it is a more humanistic vocabulary of "decency," "compassion" and "integrity." The idea of "a restoration of faith in government" recurs, a vaguely spiritual impulse focusing on confidence and trust. If Nixonians talk of what is "right with the country," McGovernites almost by definition are impelled by a sense of what is wrong with it and what could be better. They express a sense of the U.S. gone awry, of government wrested from the people to serve unholy ends?...
...stark lighting effects. Throughout, Fosse's own particular wit as a choreographer of decadence--his "Rich Man's Frug" was one of the best things in his earlier staging of Sweet Charity--serves to summon up a wealth of period references--the tinkly, jarring music of Kurt Weill, the angular, fantastic interiors of Dr. Caligari, the smoky torch songs of Blue Angel, and the bloated Bacchanites of George Grosz. In fact, his effects are occasionally so persuasive as to be claustrophobic--particularly when you add the excess of close-ups Fosse uses to tell his story...
...house, an angular maze of rooms and staircases', is comfortably but somewhat shabbily furnished. Irving has said that he is trying to sell it and move to better quarters higher on the hill overlooking the sea. But his style of life prompts some speculation about the financial well-being he has described in the midst of the Hughes affair. Irving has claimed that his wife is "independently wealthy," with $100,000 in stocks, plus additional capital yielding $10,000 a year. On occasion in recent weeks he has bristled at the suggestion that he might be looking for quick...
...firm hold in the southern part of the state. California permits banks to branch out statewide; this liberal law has allowed the huge Bank of America to open 977 branches and do 40% of the state's banking. Wells Fargo President Richard P. Cooley, 48, a tall, angular World War II pilot who is rated one of the nation's best bankers, has long yearned to compete more strongly with the B. of A. Says he: "Corporations want to operate statewide in California, and we have to be in the south in a big way to take care...
...kids on the block in Queens where William Casey grew up called him Cyclone because his angular body seemed to be constantly in motion. The nickname still fits Casey, who is now chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His seven months in office have been filled with a bustle that the agency had seldom known in its first 37 years...