Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Americans in the outcountry cannot be expected to join in all the glee. For one thing, good news in Washington is usually bad news for taxpayers elsewhere. For another, Washington's prosperity, by its very nature, is likely to remove the capital even further than ever from the realities of the country. Too much new money along with all that old power have already lent the city a noticeable ambience all its own. The Chicago Daily News recently called it "the most puffed-up, self-important city in the world." And last month New York's Senator Daniel Patrick...
Uniquely, greater Washington's economy improves in both good times and bad. Not by magic. Public problems are to Washington what oil and gas are to Texas. In Washington the fuel crisis that is but a specter everywhere else takes the shape of a new Department of Energy. Somehow the city does not need to fear the economic cycles that batter the rest of a country. Why not? Well, as the New Republic put it, "Washingtonians live outside of the law of supply and demand...
...cowboy movie, it is never hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys in this book. Everyone mentioned wears an adjective, and wears it, and wears it, until it is worn out. Subtlety is not the problem with Mr. DiMona's style. Perhaps there was so little time to correct the proofs and get the books into the stores that Bob Haldeman just shrugged at these quirks of the writer's fancy and left them in. It was only after the book was set in type that Haldeman began making the necessary final corrections. By then, no doubt...
...that she is the mistress of King Alfonso XI (Sherrill Milnes), even though a chap wearing a crown is always lurking about her or walking up and down the steps to a throne. There are also political complications in Leonora's life. Fernando is no match for all this. (Bad luck: he could have provided Lohengrin's Elsa, who also had trouble with names, with the years of bovine bliss she deserved...
...Clayburgh is one of the best at being bad, she is also one of the best at being good. She was fine as the prostitute in ABC's Hustling; her presence made bearable even a bore like Silver Streak; and as the rich Texas tomboy she more than held her own with Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson in Semi-Tough. But in An Unmarried Woman she has found the role all those disasters may have prepared her for. As Erica, the wronged wife, she is vulnerable and tough, innocent and cynical, cool and sexy. Erica comes alive...