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...truly dramatic sense of violence. In fact, for two of the Provos' fashionable sympathizers, acting and life are terribly confused. Araba Nightwing is a popular actress who proves her dedication to the cause by masquerading as a housewife and ranting against-Punch and Judy shows. Lady Arrow, an aristocratic, bi-sexual people "collector", directs prison plays and gets more of a thrill out of having her things stolen than she does from giving them away. The novel turns on Hood's discovery that Mayo's stolen painting really belongs to Lady Arrow. All action, Hood sees, is political...
...consumers of electricity. Flat rates are a desirable national policy, and support for this proposal would do a great deal to further that goal. The states that take the first steps to establish flat-rate policies may be temporarily penalized by some industrial cutbacks, but a study by Kenneth Arrow, Conant University Professor, reports that the state's economy will eventually be stronger with flat rates...
...Kenneth Arrow, Conant University Professor who won a Nobel in 1972, Edward M. Purcell, Gage University Professor who won a Nobel in 1952, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology who won the Nobel in 1967, also endorsed the statement...
...straight-arrow reputation came under suspicion because of reports, confirmed by the White House, that in 1972 he had drawn on his political campaign funds to pay for clothing and plane tickets. The amounts were relatively small and, in the case of the plane tickets, quickly paid back to his campaign fund. But Ford had violated Congress's Code of Official Conduct, which states that "a member shall keep his campaign funds separate from his personal funds" and "shall expend no funds from his campaign account not attributable to bona fide campaign purpose." Such separations can be difficult and ambiguous...
...fort. The movie is too glib about Indian spirituality to be good, too self-conscious about being on the Indians' side to be wholly convincing. The Return of a Man Called Horse is no more deeply Indian than the old Boy Scout ceremony of the Order of the Arrow. Kershner, at least, endures his own trial and proves his mettle by keeping the movie from seeming entirely ridiculous...