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...have a gifted all-around offense: our longest run is 23 yards on the last play of a half. We have to be resourceful and fully dimensional." And what does fully dimensional mean? "There is basic, rock-solid, block-and-tackle football. Then there is crazy, circus-play, flea-flicker football. We fit somewhere in between...
...length of the whole nominating process is another issue that has dominated debate. Eidenberg, noting that Republicans outspent Democrats two-to-one in 1980, says the lengthy primary season is "trying up millions of dollars which have no effect on the selection of delegates." The current system's "circus-like atmosphere" tests the credibility of the party, he argues, and all primaries should be held within the "window"--the buzzword for the three-month period from March 1 to June...
...Brodsky and Toni Treadway. The film concerns the 42-year career of the staff photographer of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and is part of a benefit program for Jacob's Pillow and the Film/Video Foundation. The program also includes a performance by Lotte Goslar and her Pantomime Circus. Tickets are $10 for students...
With that kind of a three-ring policy circus performing in public, the Reagan Administration often looks confused or inept, or both. The Administration's economic advisers in recent weeks have turned more and more to intrigues and attempts to outflank each other and seize the policy initiative. One White House official last week griped bitterly in private to Washington journalists about the low quality of economic advice being given to the President by Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. Meanwhile, Treasury officials issued broadsides of their own. Among the more...
...record eight Academy Awards (for The Heiress, All About Eve, Samson and Delilah, A Place in the Sun, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, The Facts of Life and The Sting); in Los Angeles. Her first job for a studio was draping garlands over elephants in a Cecil B. De-Mille circus film. She notched her first Oscar for dressing Olivia de Havilland as a spinster in The Heiress in 1949. Prim and priggish-looking in her bangs and tortoise-shell glasses, Head costumed actors for more than 1,000 movies and created some fashion trends, including a minor 1930s craze after...