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...remember in one of the first games last season. Pete Varney was playing fullback. Varney came lumbering through the line and decided to plant his foot on top of mine. Crushed my arch. If it would have been a little guy like Steve Harrison, I wouldn't have minded so much. But when Varn steps on you, you know you've been stepped...
Latest Indicators. After a meeting with a group of Governors and local officeholders, Nixon was quoted by West Virginia Governor Arch Moore as agreeing that Phase II controls should last for an indeterminate time. At the prompting of Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, Moore added that the President had no plans for permanent measures either. Whatever their announced duration, the controls cannot help becoming a tempting political target almost immediately...
...court. They concluded that there was almost no way to do so, but the meeting drew crowds of newsmen?and headlines in the little cold war. Afterward, a staffer in the office of Charles Colson, a presidential counsel, put in a telephone call to U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Arch Booth. He suggested that the chamber, in the interests of more efficient contract negotiations, call for the retirement of labor leaders over the age of 70. Booth quickly declined, and for good reasons, among them the fact that many of the executives active in the chamber are well beyond that...
...Oates never got rave reviews until Blacktop. They were followed by more critical praise for his compassionate portrayal of Arch in The Hired Hand, directed by and starring Peter Fonda. Arch is the man in the middle, caught between a deep friendship with a farmer and a newborn love for the farmer's wife. Oates is totally convincing in the role, struggling within himself and weighing each relationship against his own moral code...
...almost as if Beckett and Pinter put on Hellzapoppin. Everything and nothing seem to happen, yet a considerable amount of atmosphere is conveyed. The dialogue is arch and flat, absurd and witty. Descriptions are precise and at times chastely beautiful. The scatology is consistently outrageous. Yet it is through Clementine's numerous fornications that The Onion Eaters generates its odd life. The book does not have much meaning, only an animal warmth, at once grotesque and touching. Donleavy seems to be saying that this warmth is the only thing about which we can be certain. "To make the stars...