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...controversy. The Franklin Roosevelts continued their aristocratic life of yachts and grand homes. The John Kennedys poured huge sums into clothes and antiques. Neither suffered because Government was expanding to help the underprivileged. Now each dollar the Reagans spend is publicly juxtaposed against a budget cut. Butterflies can get bent out of shape in that house of mirrors...
JUST WHY KING makes those overtures to the President remains unclear. His aides claim that King-Reagan is a natural relationship stemming from the men's shared philosophical bent. Indeed, as governor. King has cultivated a tax-cutting, bureaucracy-streamlining Pro-business image. Critics call him obsequious. Two years ago, King embraced then-President Jimmy Carter as warmly as be now does Reagan. Other detractors say he is unstable "I don't know whether he's the real world or not," says King's predecessor and principle challenger, Michael S. Dukakis...
...Soviet Communist Party's chief ideologue, made his final television appearance last December, the image that flashed on Soviet screens was a veritable icon of the Kremlin's masters. In an arresting gesture that symbolized 17 years of shared power, the lanky, 6-ft.-tall Suslov, 79, bent down to bestow a kiss on Leonid Brezhnev, who was celebrating his 75th birthday. Brezhnev will sorely miss such accolades, both ceremonial and substantive. Suslov's death last week from a stroke deprived Brezhnev of his most influential ally in the Soviet Union's ruling collective leadership. Observed...
Faye Dunaway belongs to this breed. After a 17-year absence in Hollywood, she returns to Broadway's Little Theater with a vehicle no sturdier than balsa wood, but she never lets the audience forget that she is driving it hell-bent on its voyage to nowhere. Author William Alfred, Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the humanities at Harvard, launched her on the road to stardom in his play Hogan's Goat, about political shenanigans among the Brooklyn Irish in the 1890s. Now back on the same turf, Alfred mounts a sentimental archaeological dig for nostalgic relics dating...
Dunaway caroms onstage as a 14-year-old on roller skates and it may just be the larkiest moment of the poor girl's life. Orphaned all too soon, Frances Duffy is sent to live with a long-suffering aunt and an uncle (Bernie McInerney) bent on incest. When she strikes out on her own at 18, her luck with men is not conspicuously better. Eventually she weds a local Lothario (Terrance O'Quinn) who treats her to the bitter delights of being the wife of an alcoholic. Only her young son solaces her, and she counsels...