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...bobbing just above the breaking edge of parliamentary politics. "It is its capacity as a political deterrent, which is not less effective for being unused, that gives the crown, and the nation's confidence in the person who wears it, their real importance," notes British Constitutional Expert Ronald Butt. Unused, perhaps, but certainly not unfelt. Just recently the Queen let Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher know about her shock and regret over the street violence and, according to a very senior government official, expressed her clear wish that "reconciliation" be the objective that all races and religions should strive...
...that producers consult. You like to think you're hired strictly for your abilities, but I know my size has gotten me jobs." Among actors who might be on any producer's list: Orson Welles, an epic creator who is known to the television generation as the butt of Johnny Carson's fat jokes; William Conrad, TV's Nero Wolfe; Raymond Burr, old Ironside; and Burt Young, the Gibraltar of Rocky. Perhaps the most stereotyped of all is Victor Buono. Fat from childhood, Buono reached 400 Ibs. before a recent diet took him down...
...MOVIE The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Alan Arkin must dispose of a marijuana butt. He is instructed to burn the paper and get rid of the unused marijuana by throwing it in the john and flushing it twice. His partner informs him of people she knew who were in prison because they only flushed once. You can tell that this movie was made...
...held up to the light like talismans, small shards of some awful psychic puzzle. A pudgy Georgia-born ex-security guard from Hawaii named Mark David Chapman fired his shots at Lennon from what the police call "combat stance": in a stiff crouch, one hand wrapped around the butt of his newly purchased revolver, the other around his wrist to steady it. As Lennon took six staggering steps, Chapman, 25, simply stood still, and then went with the arresting officers like a model citizen who had been unfairly rousted on a traffic bust. Chapman's personal history showed...
...working my butt off," the Scholar-athlete admits. But he's not complaining. Nor is Gardiner, who says she thought classes would be "more inspiring." As Rachel Berkovits points out, there is an advantage to doing a little work and still getting decent grades. "It's fun. I'm getting away with doing a lot less work than in high school...