Word: askew
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...enliven the limp script in Home Free. As a brother and sister living in incest, Bob Waldinger and Susan Ehrlich taunt and comfort each other with a vehemence that flickers between sibling rivalry and lovers' passion. The play is too long, but Waldinger, cowering and speaking with a mouth askew, and Erhrlich, alternately imperious and wistful, draw up the yarn into a ball of tension...
...surround ourselves with expensive bricklaying tools or machinery with which to transpose our thoughts into solid, soul-satisfying, black-on-white print and go to it. To our dismay, we find that our initial endeavors are not what we hoped them to be. Our bricks are laid slightly askew, or our words do not seem to express just what we had intended them to portray. So-o-o, we call in an experienced mason, who, by applying a T-square, straightens up our building, or on the other hand we refer to our night editor, who, by using know...
...most of the effort to reinstate the death penalty has concentrated on eliminating "arbitrariness" by making death mandatory for certain crimes. A Florida commission named by Governor Reubin Askew recently recommended that the death penalty be required for anyone convicted of a premeditated murder or a murder in connection with rape, kidnaping, hijacking, bombing or arson. A group of 19 state attorneys general is now busy drafting proposals ranging from a U.S. constitutional amendment to a model law with a mandatory death sentence for such crimes as murder by contract or the killing of a policeman. At least ten state...
...dropping of Eagleton because of the uproar over his medical history was virtually unprecedented.* The rebuffs encountered by McGovern as he sought a reassuring replacement only added to the party humiliation. McGovern wooed them and practically begged, but one by one, Edward Kennedy, Abraham Ribicoff, Hubert Humphrey, Reubin Askew and Edmund Muskie all declined for various reasons their party's second highest honor. The selection of Shriver, a personable Kennedy in-law and former head of the Peace Corps and Office of Economic Opportunity (see following page), may turn out to be a good choice, but had the public...
THURSDAY. Now McGovern s original list was dwindling, but some new names had appeared. As he sat down to breakfast with Humphrey, it was to seek Hubert's advice about such other figures as Shriver, Askew and Idaho Senator Frank Church. Humphrey immediately pushed Shriver but, he recalled, "George wanted to try Askew." McGovern placed a call to the Florida Governor, who was about to leave on vacation for North Carolina. Askew asked for time to consider, and McGovern reached him, again in midafternoon in Asheville, N.C. Askew then declined on grounds that there was too much he wanted...