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...Candidate Mario Cuomo) and chooses all columnists. One discovery: former Nixon Speechwriter William Safire, whom he hired in 1973 after meeting him at a dinner party. The publisher often attends Rosenthal's 3:45 p.m. front-page conference but rarely speaks up. He skips the once-weekly "Bust Their Ass" meeting, where editors discuss investigative stories that will, Rosenthal hopes, inspire envy in other papers. Sulzberger reads some potentially controversial stories before they are printed but almost never orders them softened. Over the vigorous objection of some Times lawyers, he ordered publication of the Pentagon papers in 1971, for which...
...adding to the violence. In Bedford-Stuyvesant, for example, the situation gradually came under control as enough police arrived to station four or five cops on every corner of the most troubled area, while other cops prowled in marked and unmarked cars. One worn-out sergeant told me: 'My ass is numb and my shoulders are scrunched from riding with five other men in a Pontiac Tempest." But it worked. As tensions eased, the police avoided making arrests as much as possible to help cool things...
...perceived as a middle-class lobby protecting our own ass...
...sometimes have to apologize for," says Kris Kristofferson, the trucker Ali falls for. A more direct comment comes from Burt Young, who played Talia Shire's crude, ugly brother in Rocky and who goes by the CB monicker "Pigpen" in Convoy. "Sam's a pain in the ass, but we all want to be part of his gang. He's a genius, the bastard...
...role beyond the capsule description by the bandleader (played by Big Band Vet eran Georgie Auld, who also supplies the sax solos on the sound track) who first hires Jimmy. "Jimmy plays a barrelful of sax," says the leader, "but he's a top pain in the ass...