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...those wondering whether post-Watergate politics have become notably cleaner, a lamentable answer emerged last week: not much. The Washington-based Fair Campaign Practices Committee, a nonpartisan election-watchdog group formed in 1954, has received 49 complaints about the 1974 campaign thus far. Said the committee's executive director, Samuel J. Archibald: "There were so many Democratic challengers tasting victory this year, and so many Republican incumbents tasting defeat - both were tempted to use the knee in the groin...
...memoir, Ives attempted to answer the question of why a man so in love with music would go so enthusiastically into business. "Father felt that a man could keep his music-interest stronger, cleaner, bigger and freer, if he didn't try to make a living out of it... If he has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances-answer that...
...just another spoofy heist picture takes on a wayward comic life that is about as refreshing as any adventure movie around these days. The grand plan calls for the orchestration of such oddly diverse elements as hand-painted cockroaches, an enormous piece of chocolate cake and a giant vacuum cleaner. Better still, it requires Grodin to convert himself from a chronically depressed victim into a man of action. That development-as his voice-over narration, rather like a rehearsal for a Woody Allen monologue, makes clear-does nothing to alleviate his deep existential dread. "She is a very good person...
During the Johnson administration the CIA probably participated in the infiltration of radical organizations, Marks said. But he added that the CIA was "much cleaner," meaning less active domestically, than other government intelligence agencies...
Could this attempt to portray Republicans as supersquares be a subtle maneuver to win sympathy? After all, who would not feel sorry for a candidate sleeping alone with a hat on, in a room reeking of paint cleaner and Raid, denied even the comfort of reading...