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...aura of political and technological complexity about this film, it still appears that Lindsay-Hogg and Enders used a butcher's knife to chop Spark's novel to pieces. Maybe Nixon should have gotten his hands on this film and erased is most tedious segments. Even if he only managed to cut out eight-and-a-half minutes, he would have saved a few souls from some of the unimpressed boredom that is this year's filmgoer's hell...
...been a rough day," the President says as he takes a single pork chop. He recalls his lunch with the labor leaders. "Whew," he says. "Those fellas can be mean. They used a blowtorch on me. That's the first time George Meany has ever talked to me that way." Then comes a typical Carter afterthought: "Tough, but polite. I listened, but I don't think I satisfied them. The minimum-wage bill has labor mad. The farm-price-support bill has the farmers mad. Pretty soon we're going to announce the energy policy-and everybody...
...time we branched out and did something different." In the 13-installment program, which she will begin shooting in September, Julia will whip up entire meals instead of single dishes, aiming also to "get out of the kindergarten. We don't want to show how to chop onions. This will be sort of an advanced thing for people who like to cook." Some possibilities for Julia's new menu: New England boiled beef and cabbage, Pedernales chili and, of course, grits...
...hostages were being led in. One of the gunmen kept counting us and saying, 'Allah said to have 100.' They were cruel. They would say, 'For every one of our men who die, we'll kill ten of you.' They said they'd chop off our heads. 'You won't see any blood, you won't feel anything,' they...
...first of the old alphabet agencies set up to create jobs in the 1930s was F.D.R.'s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which in nine years sent 2.5 million young men to the nation's forests and parklands to cut trails, build fire towers, chop brush and plant nearly 2 billion trees. Last week President Carter proposed in effect to resurrect the CCC as part of a $1.8 billion program to put youths to work...