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...govern us? Voters choose only promises and premonitions, biographers provide conscientious rationales on the basis of what is vouchsafed them by the reticent subject or the partially informed intimate. But Lyndon Baines Johnson, in his TV interlocution with Walter Cronkite, gave as full a rendition as immediate history is apt to hear...
...production seems to squelch almost everyone connected with it. Only René Auberjonois as a faggy designer manages to filch an occasional moment of amusing exuberance. A number he does called Fiasco is the closest thing Coco has to a show-jogger-and is all too apt as a one-word critique...
...many generations of priests, says Sociologist Philip Murnion, have been "socialized"?conditioned to react only to the dictates of an established structure. When priests live and work on their own, as they have in some experimental programs, they often leave the active ministry. After they leave, they are apt to join secular bureaucracies?notably welfare agencies ?that also allow them little room for personal initiative and responsibility...
Unlimited was an apt description for Abbott's foe, huge George Zguris, who tips the scales at a delicate 287 pounds. Neither Zguris nor Abbott went to the mat in a scoreless first period, but Abbott scored a reverse in the second period to lead, 2-0. Zguris escaped to make the score 2-1 at the end of the period...
...book. One British reviewer called it "a lugubrious epitaph for our waning decade." Muggeridge called the whole effort commercial bananas. Even Bailey doesn't exactly promote it when he says: "I've done a superficial book about a superficial period." Maybe. But perhaps a more apt summing-up of Goodbye is its last-line appraisal of the decade itself-"It was great fun. Sure...