Word: braced
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What little attention New Hampshire voters are giving to their presidential primary has been concentrated on the Democrats. They have paid scant heed to President Nixon's two rivals on the Republican side, a brace of U.S. Representatives who differ drastically in ideology but otherwise turn out to have a good deal in common. They are California's Paul ("Pete") McCloskey, 44, a Kennedy-esque Marine Reserve colonel who wants the U.S. out of Viet Nam at once, and Ohio's John Ashbrook, 43, a deep-dyed conservative who deplores Nixon's "leftward drift" on welfare...
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This is the one period of Napoleon's life (except, presumably, his conception) that could be filmed on a small budget; the war is over, thus effecting a great economy in props and stunt riders; all that is needed is a smallish garrison of redcoats, a brace of cameo parts (filled, with steely and rather contemptuous panache, by Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud), one or two sexual objects, a Napoleon, some rocks for the escape attempt and a sunset or two to be glowered at from cliff tops. Once these were assembled, Director Fielder Cook...