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...personal and business life of Howard Hughes. It talks about the details of his relationships with women. It talks about the dealings of the Hughes Tool Co. and TWA, about Hughes' relationships with the Presidents of the U.S." Others who have seen it find no less than devastating the defiant candor with which Hughes, almost as if he were talking to an analyst, exposes the personal and business relationships of his CinemaScope career. And no one who has read the manuscript so far doubts its genuineness...
...separate schools and public facilities. His espousal of First Amendment guarantees of free speech set him squarely against some of the Nixon Administration's law-and-order measures. In a case on electronic eavesdropping, he decried the possible loss of "that spontaneity -reflected in frivolous, impetuous, sacrilegious and defiant discourse -that liberates daily life...
...strides onto a stage bobbing her head and grinning, like an elegant shepherdess. Where Sutherland sails into a fast aria with grand nonchalance, Sills is likely to bounce up and down with infectious self-enjoyment. Sutherland usually finishes with a smile and a regal bow, Sills with a somewhat defiant toss of her head as if to say: "There! Top that!" So far, nobody has been able to top either of them...
...investment and their children. Last September, when they were told that to further integration two of their daughters, Patrice and Susan, would have to go to fifth grade at the new Lee school, half a mile away-the other five children were not affected-they were confused, angry and defiant. "It is our God-given right to send our children to whatever school we want," says Mrs. Nephew...
...vengeance, he might in death have looked like a twisted tragic hero. As it is, even after his last speech has sealed his lips and ended any chance that he will explain his evil motives to the audience. Pachoda's Iago can divert attention from center-stage with a defiant tilt of his head...