Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Begelman's return, Los Angeles District Attorney John Van de Kamp issued a four-count felony complaint, charging the executive with grand theft of $40,000 and with forging the names of Director Martin Ritt, Publicist Pierre Groleau and Actor Cliff Robertson on checks. So Begelman is set to surrender this week to Burbank police, and will shortly afterward be arraigned. If convicted, he could be sentenced to one to ten years in state prison on the grand-theft charge and one to 14 years on each of the three forgery counts. One serious problem...
...Music Hall, frontal-assaulted the Top Forty, and paid for a new sloop, Euphoria II. There aren't but a half-dozen memorable lines on the new album, and even fewer musical quirks, like the cello (the cello??) that follows Buffett down one of his trademark Acapulco cliff-diving voice drops at the end of a line and flattens out the splash. This is shrimpboat country rock all right, but it's all cluttered up with the latest radar and range-finders (like manager Irving Azoff, who flies the Eagles among others), automatic net-spreaders (the Margaritaville sound, over...
Gone from that team are captain Dan Waldman--one of the great names in Harvard tennis history--then-freshman Dan Gerken, and Falstaffian doubles player Cliff Adler...
...surprising thing is that Finch has managed to keep up his popularity, this being accomplished by numerous "Cliff Finch Appreciation Day" rallies, which usually include the serving of barbecued chicken. One can only guess at where the money for all of this comes, considering Finch's supporters are the poor working people...
...cannot change the election of Cliff Finch; it was legal and is over. But we do not have to go along with what he has done (or not done) and try to say, for optimism's sake, that it was good. Instead, we can expose him as what he is--a political animal of the worst sort, one who knows how to appeal to people's emotions rather than to their senses, one whose actions indicate only a desire for self-perpetuation, a follower elected to a position of leadership...