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...disgusted by the animalistic crime of rape. But the statement made by Bert Graham of Houston's district attorney's office, "Now juries are quick to side with the complainant," prompted visions of future injustice. Awakening people to a crime like rape is fine, but we must be careful to keep public opinion out of our court system...
...misses important opportunities. Late last year Bert Lance, Democratic state chairman in Georgia and head of a coalition of Southern leaders, met with Glenn and urged him to get in touch with the group. Lance heard nothing for months. Mondale in the meantime sent his campaign chairman to see Lance for support and openly laid out his strategy. A topflight political fund raiser, Tim Finchem, approached Glenn last fall about joining the campaign. Finchem, who waited three months for an answer, finally despaired, signed on with Mondale, and has since become one of the stars of that operation...
...Bert J. Garry, press spokesman for the Executive Office of Environment Affairs-the agency in charge of administering the bill-denies these charges. He concedes that not all of the returnables are recycled into bottles or cans, but he insists that they are used for other products, such as aluminum siding and plastic insulation...
...current hits: hiring pop-identifiable personalities to take over major roles. To wit, Debbie Reynolds will replace Raquel Welch who replaced Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year. Teenswooner Andy Gibb is now headlining Broadway's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and yes, no less than Bert Convy, the chirpy host of TV's Tattletales, is replacing Raul Julia for two weeks in the musical Nine. Of all the recent replacements, however, the most interesting may be Morgan Fairchild, 32, who last week joined the cast of the off-Broadway comedy Geniuses. Morgan steps into the role...
...Kermit. No Bert and Ernie. Sam the Nixonian eagle and Grover, with his perpetually pubescent voice, are elsewhere. This movie is serious: Jim Henson's foray into the art, dammit, of puppetry. With the help of Star Wars Producer Gary Kurtz, Faeries Artist Brian Froud, fellow Muppeteer Frank Oz and $26 million, Henson has devised a luxuriantly original fantasy world as dark as the magic crystal totem at its center. The setting is "another world, another time, in the Age of Wonder." A war between the benevolent Mystics (who look like shaggy-dog anteaters) and the evil Skeksis (pustular...