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...other doubtful starters are right defensive tackle Chuck Durst and middle guard Tom McDevitt. Durst, a sophomore, damaged the rotator cuff in his shoulder against UMass, and had to leave practice early Tuesday to rest the inflamed joint...
Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, giving an off-the-cuff modest appraisal of Jimmy Carter: "I think we are much better off with him as President than we would have been with the Republican opponent...
Perhaps that is why the excerpts of Nixon's memoirs are so thoroughly and predictably disappointing. In a dull, clipped prose more reminiscent of Jerry Ford speaking off-the-cuff than his own roiling Pat Buchanan-William Safire speeches or football-fuck-em vernacular, nothing of the real Nixon emerges. The weird intensity, the paranoid desperation of the man who believed he always knew the right answer, and alone could act upon it, is gone. Instead, we are given a shallow, simplistic portrait of events, with the personality of the Great Vindictor sucked clean out of them. By contrast...
Denisenko gave a pair of golden cuff links bearing the hammer-and-sickle crest to Swiss Brigadier General Jean-Louis Jeanmaire. When Jeanmaire wore them, Swiss security agents had their first clue to his treachery; he was sentenced to an 18-year prison term...
...with marvelous malice, but it is not their only target. Along the way they take on rolfing, pyramid power and even something called movagenics, which invites its adepts to drop down on all fours and crawl around looking for their lost center of consciousness as if it were a cuff link that had rolled under the bed. Indeed, the movie's funniest moment occurs when Robert Preston, a Texas oilman who owns the team, attempts to proselytize for this cult. He has had an office built to facilitate practice of his new faith. It has a teeny-tiny door...