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...nine months Senator Kennedy was attacked by the President and his supporters. Suddenly he is expected to em brace Carter and is called cold when he doesn't [Aug. 25]. Rather than merely tolerating hypocrisy in our political leaders, it seems we now demand it of them...
...grouse exist only on tender heather shoots, the lands must be burned over once a year to provide new growth and must be patrolled constantly to protect the young birds from predatory varmints. Moreover, the castles and stately mansions have become horrifically expensive to heat and maintain. However many brace of birds (the British, like Noah, always count them by twos) they may shoot, the Guns of August are allowed to keep only a few a day for personal consumption. Most are shipped south to salivating diners...
...This was Monday evening and the fight over delegate rules would settle things once and for all. Robert Strauss and Hamilton Jordan sat on the brown vinyl couches, half a dozen phones on the table in front of them, sending floor whips and Cabinet officers into the hall to brace wavering delegates...
Before the hordes jump on My Bodyguard as the Breaking Away of this summer, a word of caution: None of the adolescent boys who star in My Bodyguard fall in love. They don't even become infatuated. Girls are brace-faced idiots who fill in the empty classrooms of the John Fleer School in Chicago, Ill. That makes this heart-warming tale of pubescent-bonding much simpler, of course, since females don't get in the way. Their absence casts a strange aura over this film, where the only libidinous urges come from Ruth Gordon, playing a grandmother with lust...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...